REI 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Devo
2 Apr 2015
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Indeed, the approach advocated here is distinctly suspicious of the very notion of given community". Media as spaces of communication in which the identity, meaning and boundaries of diasporic community are continually constructed, debated and reimagined. Culture = community = ethnic identity = nature = culture". In diaspora, these processes of community and identity articulation become even more pronounced. The condition of diaspora is one in which the multiplicity of identity and community is a key dynamic. Approximately 7 million muslims currently living in western europe, many of them are only. Nominally" muslim, belonging to a category which some writers call the culturalist" muslim. This term refers to those whose ethno- historical roots qualify them as muslims, but who do not practise their religion or consider it to be a signi cant component of their self-identities. Up to 40 percent of today"s muslims live in minority situations, many of them as communities within a wider, non-muslim society.
