Racial and ethnic relations

Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by SABA MAHMOOD

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S135618630000746X

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier 1204–1760 . By Richard M. Eaton. (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 17.) pp. xxvii, 359, 24 figs, 6 maps. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1993. $50.00.

Many years ago a contributor to the Dublin Review wrote about the XV century: “ This epoch was an eclipse—a very Egyptian darkness; worse than Chaos or Erebus—black as the thick preternatural night under which Our Lord was crucified ”.I Had this statement been true it would have been easy to account for the Reformation. It is false, and the Reformation has still to be explained. In the last chapter it became clear that there were many scandals in the clerical estate, but that the clergy were by no means so black as they have sometimes been painted. In this chapter it should become clear how, in spite of wickedness and superstition, there was a popular religion—real, sincere and active. There have never been any good old times; but in reviewing the past it is possible to overestimate our superior enlightenment.

The Popular Religion

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0048721X.2019.1584349

Theorizing religious socialization: a critical assessment

Two cases of religious socialization among minorities

Scholarship on the hybrid and interrelated nature of religion and secularism among religious minorities is still scarce. This study explores how young adult religious minority students in Israel, Muslims and Druze, integrate their religious worldviews within modernity, separately for each group and comparatively for both, with special attention to their conflictual position as minorities. The research data were collected as part of a mixed-methods research project—Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG), which used the Faith Q-Sort method (version b)—and through semi-structured interviews. The findings reflect the multiple ways in which modernization processes can shape the religious worldviews of minority students and confirm previous findings on the multifaceted manifestations of religiosity and secularization. Furthermore, the study highlights the indirect manner through which the position of “religious/ ethnic minority” might promote secularization.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00846724221145340

Sawsan Kheir

Papers

Two cases of religious socialization among minorities

Reflections of modernization in religious worldviews of Israeli religious minority students