| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Religion and global migrations |
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Religion and global migrations.
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| Contents |
Dedication; A Note on Translation and Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1984; Frankfurt and Toronto; Generations; Heterodoxy and Heresy; Overview; Notes; References; Chapter 2: The Violent Event and the Temporal Dimensions of Diasporas; Heterodox Claims and Prophetic Times; Precarious Thresholds of Time; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Religious Subjectivity in Spaces of the Otherwise; Commitments; sangat; dukkh; charhdi kala; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: The Radiating Effect of the Asylum Court on Religion; The Activist Court |
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The Threshold of Credibility"Just Like Don Quichote": The Judge as Cultural Arbiter; Recasting the Forum Internum; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Fabricating Suspicious Religious Others; The Anti-Mosquers' Discourse; Fabricating Ahmadis as Suspicious Religious Subjects; Distant Beards and Pulp Moderns; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Daughters and Sons of '84: Dissenting Performances of Labor and Love; "Terrorist Bodies" and "Samosa Politics"; Sons of '84; Daughters of '84; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7: The Ordinary and Prophetic Voice of Postmemory Work |
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A Give-and-Take Discourse of BelongingGeneration Postmemory; The Family-Jamat Nexus; Sermons for Sufferers; Reclaiming Voice After Crisis; Notes; References; Postscript; Memories of a Bird; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines the long-term effects of violence on the everyday cultural and religious practices of a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Comparative in scope and the first to discuss contemporary articulations of Sikh and Ahmadiyya identities within a single frame of reference, the book assembles a significant range of empirical data gathered over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork. In its focus on precarious sites of identity formation, the volume engages with cutting-edge theories in the fields of critical diaspora studies, migration and refugee studies, religion, secularism, and politics. It presents a novel approach to the reading of Ahmadi and Sikh subjectivities in the current climate of anti-immigrant movements and suspicion against religious others. Michael Nijhawan also offers new insights into what animates emerging movements of the youth and their attempts to reclaim forms of the spiritual and political |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 19, 2016) |
| Subject |
Sikh diaspora.
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Sikhs -- Cultural assimilation
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Muslims -- Cultural assimilation
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Panjabis (South Asian people)
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National characteristics, Panjabi.
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Religious issues & debates.
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Islam.
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Hinduism.
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Comparative religion.
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HISTORY -- General.
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National characteristics, Panjabi
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Muslims -- Cultural assimilation
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Panjabis (South Asian people)
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Sikh diaspora
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Sikhs -- Cultural assimilation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137488541 |
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1137488549 |
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1137499591 |
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9781137499592 |
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