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Transnationalizing Multiple Secularities: A Comparative Study of the Global Isma'ili Community
Transnationalisierung von Multiple Secularities: eine komparative Studie der globalen ismailitischen Gemeinschaft
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Abstract This article starts with and proceeds from empirical observations about the ways international Ismaՙili students at two institutes for Islamic studies in London draw boundaries between religion and other spheres in their everyday life. According to these observations, students from Ismaՙili communit... mehr
This article starts with and proceeds from empirical observations about the ways international Ismaՙili students at two institutes for Islamic studies in London draw boundaries between religion and other spheres in their everyday life. According to these observations, students from Ismaՙili communities in Iran, Tajikistan, and Syria tend to make more explicit distinctions between a religious domain and a secular one in comparison with their Khoja coreligionists of East African descent. In order to explain this disparity, structural, ideological, and social conditions in their respective countries and communities are analyzed using the framework of multiple secularities. It is argued that while Ismaՙili communities in Iran, Tajikistan, and Syria have each internalized a motif of secularity from its broader national context, Khoja Ismaՙili communities have developed their own form of secularity, which can be described in terms of internal secularization. This article makes a contribution to the multiple secularities framework by extending its application to the transnational domain and to the analysis of secularity within religious communities. Furthermore, the article offers a comparative approach to the study the role of religion in global Ismaՙilism.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Säkularisierung; Wahrnehmung; Islam; Transnationalisierung; Individuum; Iran; Tadschikistan; Syrien; Feldforschung; internationaler Vergleich; Interaktion; Religionsgemeinschaft; Modernisierung
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Religionssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Secularity; internal secularization; Ismailism; transnational religious movements; Khoja; East Africa; Aga Khan III
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 150-179
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 3
Heftthema
Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)