"This Is Just Where We Are in History"
Building upon an ethnographic study of initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I explore the way Muslim participants in such initiatives conceptualise the position of their community in the UK in relation to that of their Jewish co-citizens. I argue that while at first blush my Muslim inter...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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| In: |
Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Pages: 231-249 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Muslim
/ Jews
/ Discrimination
/ Experience
/ Solidarity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism BJ Islam KBF British Isles |
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| Summary: | Building upon an ethnographic study of initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I explore the way Muslim participants in such initiatives conceptualise the position of their community in the UK in relation to that of their Jewish co-citizens. I argue that while at first blush my Muslim interlocutors appear to read their community, in some historical time-frames, as being in a position of relative disadvantage in comparison to that of their Jewish counterparts, further analysis of their understanding of the positionalities of British Jews and British Muslims reveals a theorization that conveys a strong sense of solidarity with British Jewish citizens and unequivocally conceptualizes them as a political minority. I also suggest that these comparative reflections on the minority condition bear a productive potential for drawing public attention to specific challenges that different minority groups face. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annual review of the sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004514331_012 |