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- Title
The Religious Which Is Political: Revisiting Pnina Werbner's Imagined Diasporas and Beyond.
- Authors
Liebelt, Claudia
- Abstract
Dedicated to the memory of Pnina Werbner, this essay revisits Werbner's ethnographic and conceptual work on the relationship between diaspora and religion through a close reading of her book on Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims and her later engagements with the concept of diaspora with respect to religion and the background of her work on African and Filipino labour diasporas in the West. It argues that many of Werbner's insights remain pertinent today, not least because in many European contexts Muslim-background citizens and non-citizens remain excluded from full belonging and are still forced to engage in constant perspectival manoeuvring similar to Werbner's earlier interlocutors. While the notion of diaspora has lost much of its earlier conceptual verve, in its Werbnerian reading, I argue, it may still offer a scholarly tool for analysing the multiple imaginations, belongings, and ambiguities of migrants' and religious minorities' self-representations and complex lives.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS minorities; MOLECULAR force constants; DIASPORA; NONCITIZENS
- Publication
Religions, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 3, p319
- ISSN
2077-1444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rel15030319