‘As a Sunni, I Naturally Cannot Understand Anything Like Temporary Marriage’: Mutʿa Marriage, Online Boundary-Work, and the Social Psychology of Sunni–Shiʿa Relations
Identity construction involves drawing a rhetorical boundary between one’s own group and others. Using data gathered from a Finnish online forum for Muslims, I study how the practice of temporary (mutʿa) marriage is used to mark a boundary between Sunni and Shiʿa Muslims. Here, I examine the rhetori...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Journal of Muslims in Europe
Year: 2023, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-97 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social Identity Theory
B Social media B rhetorical psychology B Boundary-work B Religious Identity B Marriage |
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| Summary: | Identity construction involves drawing a rhetorical boundary between one’s own group and others. Using data gathered from a Finnish online forum for Muslims, I study how the practice of temporary (mutʿa) marriage is used to mark a boundary between Sunni and Shiʿa Muslims. Here, I examine the rhetorical devices used by Sunni and Shiʿa Muslims, combining the principle of meta-contrast with the concept of boundary-markers to propose a general model of intergroup boundary dynamics. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-7954 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Muslims in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22117954-bja10064 |
