7. ‘Out-of-place’ Muslims: Public Islam and Youth Activism in Sites of Modernity
Religious Super-diversity and Peacebuilding across Asia and its Diasporas - Alessandro Saggioro
Andrea Priori [+]
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Andrea Priori, postdoctoral researcher at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, is an anthropologist concerned with migrations and im-mobilities with a focus on Bangladesh. His main research interests include migrants' political self-organization, the intersection of im-mobility, politics and ir-religiosity, and the construction of migrant masculinities, and. He published the monograph on Bangladeshi migrations Romer probashira (2012), various book chapters and peer-reviewed articles, and co-edited special issues for the journals New Diversities, Migration Letters, and Religion and Society.
Description
This chapter examines the different expressions of religious activism among young Italian-Bangladeshis to shed light on the relationship between public sphere, Islam, and sites of modernity in migratory contexts. The analysis highlights how Islam can be appropriated in different positionalities to construct a public discourse which assumes theatrical and topological forms.