The Paradox of Religion: The (re)Construction of Hindu and Muslim Identities amongst South Asian Diasporas in the United States

In the process of (re)constructing their identities in an alien society, South Asians have tended to give to religion a significant importance. This salience of religion owes as much to the dislocation and the stigmatization engendered by the migration experience as to the local context, the United...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aminah Mohammad-Arif
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2007-10-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/55