“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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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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