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