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Religion in diaspora : cultures of citizenship /

This edited collection addresses the relationship between diaspora, religion and the politics of identity in the modern world. It illuminates religious understandings of citizenship, association and civil society, and situates them historically within diverse cultures of memory and state traditions.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Garnett, Jane (Editor ), Hausner, Sondra L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Colección:Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Cultures of Citizenship
  • 1. Reconsidering 'Diaspora'
  • 2. Biblical Case Studies of Diaspora Jews and Constructions of (Religious) Identity
  • 3. Historicising Diaspora Spaces: Performing Faith, Race, and Place in London's East End
  • 4. Remembering the Umma in the Confines of the Nation State
  • 5. Negotiating Settlement: Senegalese Muslim Immigrants and the Politics of Multiple Belongings in New York City
  • 6. Reconfiguring the Societal Place of Religion in Finland: Islamic Communities Move from the Margins to Partner in Civil Society
  • 7. The Voice(s) of British Sikhs
  • 8. State-Level Representation versus Community Cohesion: Competing Influences on Nepali Religious Associations in the United Kingdom
  • 9. The Veiling of Religious Markers in the Sahrawi Diaspora
  • 10. 'Islam Is Not a Culture': Reshaping Muslim Publics for a Secular World
  • 11. Hope, Margin, Example: The Kimbanguist Diaspora in Lisbon
  • 12. Green Books, Blue Books, and Buddhism as Symbols of Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora: Towards an Anthropology of Fictive Citizenship.