Religion in Diaspora: Cultures of Citizenship

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Cultures of Citizenship....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Reconsidering ‘Diaspora’....Pages 17-35
Biblical Case Studies of Diaspora Jews and Constructions of (Religious) Identity....Pages 36-54
Historicising Diaspora Spaces: Performing Faith, Race, and Place in London’s East End....Pages 55-79
Remembering the Umma in the Confines of the Nation State....Pages 80-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Negotiating Settlement: Senegalese Muslim Immigrants and the Politics of Multiple Belongings in New York City....Pages 103-120
Reconfiguring the Societal Place of Religion in Finland: Islamic Communities Move from the Margins to Partner in Civil Society....Pages 121-137
The Voice(s) of British Sikhs....Pages 138-157
State-Level Representation versus Community Cohesion: Competing Influences on Nepali Religious Associations in the United Kingdom....Pages 158-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
The Veiling of Religious Markers in the Sahrawi Diaspora....Pages 181-201
‘Islam Is Not a Culture’: Reshaping Muslim Publics for a Secular World....Pages 202-225
Hope, Margin, Example: The Kimbanguist Diaspora in Lisbon....Pages 226-244
Green Books, Blue Books, and Buddhism as Symbols of Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora: Towards an Anthropology of Fictive Citizenship....Pages 245-256
Afterword....Pages 257-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-262