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The authors highlights significant moments, strategies, and themes in British non-heterosexual Muslims' management of familial and kin relations, highlighting socio-cultural and religious factors that contribute to their decisions.Abstract:
This paper highlights significant moments, strategies, and themes in British non-heterosexual Muslims' management of familial and kin relations. Significant socio-cultural and religious factors con...read more
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Coping with potentially incompatible identities: accounts of religious, ethnic, and sexual identities from British Pakistani men who identify as Muslim and gay.
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Youthful Muslim masculinities: gender and generational relations
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Nepotism in the Arab World: An Institutional Theory Perspective
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Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications
Fenggang Yang,Helen Rose Ebaugh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, three processes of change occurring in new immigrant religions are described and analyzed: adopting the congregational form in organizational structure and ritual, returning to theological foundations, and reaching beyond traditional ethnic and religious boundaries to include other peoples.
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Changing parameters of citizenship and claims-making: Organized Islam in European public spheres
TL;DR: A significant outcome of the postwar labor migration has been Europe's rediscovery of Islam and there has arisen a visible interest in Islam as an object of political and cultural curiosity and scientific inquiry as discussed by the authors.
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Changing ethnic identities
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Muslims in the Diaspora: The Somali Communities of London and Toronto
TL;DR: Rima Berns McGown, in interviews with over 80 Somali men, women and children, found that Somali refugees in the West have had to renegotiate their understanding of themselves as Muslims in the highly secular, Judeo-Christian-based liberal democracies in which they newly reside, a process compounded by the harsh realities of refugee life as discussed by the authors.
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