“Entrance Free—we are Looking Forward to your Visit!”: Public Events as Strategies of Legitimisation in Immigrant Religious Organisations
Public events by immigrant religious organisations are a fairly new phenomenon in European societies. This article analyses and compares two such events: Diwali Mela, the Hindu festival of lights, and the Open Mosque Day organised by Muslim umbrella organisations. Using basic concepts of new institu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2016, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 369-401 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Open house (school)
/ Religious minority
/ Islam
/ Hinduism
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism |
| Further subjects: | B
immigrant religious organisations
Hindus
Muslims
Europe
new institutionalist theory
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| Summary: | Public events by immigrant religious organisations are a fairly new phenomenon in European societies. This article analyses and compares two such events: Diwali Mela, the Hindu festival of lights, and the Open Mosque Day organised by Muslim umbrella organisations. Using basic concepts of new institutional theory, we will show how immigrant religious organisations adopt established event formats and translate them into their own context. Interestingly, different factors influence the way they present themselves and their religious tradition at the public event. Three of these factors are of major impact: the secular image of the role of religion in society, the discourse about Islam and Hinduism, and finally the organisations’ own religious concepts. We argue that the action generated out of this leads to the masking of two major aspects of religion: the rites and the believers. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-00904004 |