Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction; Jane Garnett; Sondra L. Hausner PART I: MEMORIES AND LEGACIES 1. Reconsidering "Diaspora"; Jonathan Boyarin 2. Biblical Case Studies of Diaspora Jews and Constructions of Religious Identity; Jill Middlemas 3. Historicising diaspora spaces: performing faith, race and place in London's East End; Nazneen Ahmed with Jane Garnett, Ben Gidley, Alana Harris and Michael Keith 4. Remembering the umma in the confines of the nation state; Faiz Sheikh; Samantha May PART II: ASSOCIATION 5. Negotiating Settlement: Senegalese Muslim Immigrants and the Politics of Multiple Belongings in New York City; Ousmane Kane 6. Reconfiguring the Societal Place of Religion in Finland: Islamic Communities Move from the Margins to Partner in Civil Society; Tuomas Martikainen 7. The Voice(s) of British Sikhs; Jasjit Singh 8. State level representation versus community cohesion: competing influences on Nepali religious associations in the UK; Florence Gurung PART III: SYMBOLS 9. The Veiling of Religious Markers in the Sahrawi Diaspora; Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 10. 'Islam is not a Culture': Reshaping a Muslim Public for a Secular World; Katherine Pratt Ewing 11. Hope, Margin, Example: The Kimbanguist Diaspora in Lisbon; Ramon Sarro 12. Green Books, Blue Books, and Buddhism as Symbols of Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora: Towards an Anthropology of Fictive Citizenship; Abraham Zablocki Afterword; Jane Garnett; Sondra L. Hausner
