"Beyond Beards, Scarves and Halal Meat": Mediated Constructions of British Muslim Identity
There is an emerging identity discourse among young British Muslims in the twenty-first century that strives to create a space for itself in the public sphere beyond both assimilation and isolation. Its articulators seek to affirm their Islamic identity within its Western context and through interac...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2007]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2007, Volume: 15, Issue: 1 |
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| Summary: | There is an emerging identity discourse among young British Muslims in the twenty-first century that strives to create a space for itself in the public sphere beyond both assimilation and isolation. Its articulators seek to affirm their Islamic identity within its Western context and through interaction with it, re(defining) and (re)constructing in the process what it means to be British as well as to be Muslim. An important way in which such redefinitions take place is through British Muslim particularistic media. Through a critical analysis of the content of two British Muslim magazines, this article examines the way in which these media construct an identity open to the possibility of multiple ways of simultaneously being Western and being Muslim. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.15.1.001 |