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.

"The need for boldly comparative and theoretically sophisticated work on diasporas has become increasingly obvious in recent years. This book responds to that need brilliantly as it crosses disciplinary boundaries in presenting case studies of interactions between religion, diaspora and citizenship from around the world. Taken together, the chapters present us with methodological as well as theoretical inspiration. They also encourage us to consider still wider questions, about the connections and disjunctions between forms of political, cultural and religious belonging, and the links between territory and association in human life, past and present." - Simon Coleman, University of Toronto, Canada

"Balancing rights and responsibilities, finding a meaningful place to dwell within the nation state, and contributing to its history, society and vision for the future without forsaking one's own memories and connections with other times and places is what active diasporic citizenship is all about. And it is not new. It is important social and cultural work to which migrants bring a strong sense of identity, moral boundaries and theological commitments. The authors writing in this timely volume take this work seriously, looking beneath current fears and assumptions about religion and the global order at how religious minorities in diaspora have sustained their communities and traditions whilst negotiating for recognition and participation as citizens." - Kim Knott, University of Lancaster, UK

Autorentext
Nazneen Ahmed, University College London, UK Jonathan A. Boyarin, Cornell University, USA Katherine Pratt Ewing, Columbia University, USA Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, University College London, UK Jane Garnett, University of Oxford, UK Ben Gidley, University of Oxford, UK Florence Gurung, University of Oxford, UK Alana Harris, King's College London, UK Sondra L. Hausner, University of Oxford, UK Ousmane Oumar Kane, Harvard Divinity School, USA Michael Keith, University of Oxford, UK Tuomas Martikainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Samantha May, University of Aberdeen, UK Jill Middlemas, University of Zürich, Switzerland Ramon Sarró, University of Oxford, UK Faiz Sheikh, University of Exeter, UK Jasjit Singh, University of Leeds, UK Abraham Zablocki, Agnes Scott College, USA

Inhalt

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 Sarró
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