scholarly journals INDEXICALITY OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN YALE MSA E-COMMUNICATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 330
Author(s):  
Aris Munandar
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Group Communication ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
To Come ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
E Mail

Muslims in the U.S is a minority group, thus, vulnerable to discrimation. Yale Muslim Students Association (Yale MSA) as a Muslim community on Campus provides Yale students with the opportunity to come together in a supportive Muslim environment and seeks to educate the Yale and New Haven communities about Islam (YaleMSA.org). This article discusses how Yale MSA indexes Muslim identity in its emails and webpage communication and how the indexicality shows Yale MSA as an empowered Muslim community on campus. It applies the framework for identity analysis proposed by Bucholtz and Hall (2005), especially principle (3) identities may be linguistically indexed through labels, implicatures, stances, styles, or linguistic structures and systems. The analysis of Yale MSA in-group e-mail communication (Yale [email protected]) and in out-group webpage communication (YaleMSA.org) during the 2008-2014 periods reveals that Yale MSA uses Arabic borrowings and expressions presupposing Muslim life to index’s its Muslim identity. The intensive use of Arabic borrowings in the in-group communication heightens the Islamic atmosphere and strengthens solidarity among members, while the use of Arabic borrowings in combination with English equivalent in out-group communication mitigates prejudice from different faith groups. The choice of overt labels “Muslim” and “non Muslim” rather than “Moslem” and “nonbeliever” implies Yale MSA’s freedom to speak its own voice, and advocate for equal respect among different faith groups in Yale campus and New Haven community. The confidence in speaking its own voice and asserting an equal stance demonstrates that Yale MSA is an empowered Muslim community.

scholarly journals INDEXICALITY OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN YALE MSA E-COMMUNICATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 330
Author(s):  
Aris Munandar
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Group Communication ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
To Come ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
E Mail

Muslims in the U.S is a minority group, thus, vulnerable to discrimation. Yale Muslim Students Association (Yale MSA) as a Muslim community on Campus provides Yale students with the opportunity to come together in a supportive Muslim environment and seeks to educate the Yale and New Haven communities about Islam (YaleMSA.org). This article discusses how Yale MSA indexes Muslim identity in its emails and webpage communication and how the indexicality shows Yale MSA as an empowered Muslim community on campus. It applies the framework for identity analysis proposed by Bucholtz and Hall (2005), especially principle (3) identities may be linguistically indexed through labels, implicatures, stances, styles, or linguistic structures and systems. The analysis of Yale MSA in-group e-mail communication (Yale [email protected]) and in out-group webpage communication (YaleMSA.org) during the 2008-2014 periods reveals that Yale MSA uses Arabic borrowings and expressions presupposing Muslim life to index’s its Muslim identity. The intensive use of Arabic borrowings in the in-group communication heightens the Islamic atmosphere and strengthens solidarity among members, while the use of Arabic borrowings in combination with English equivalent in out-group communication mitigates prejudice from different faith groups. The choice of overt labels “Muslim” and “non Muslim” rather than “Moslem” and “nonbeliever” implies Yale MSA’s freedom to speak its own voice, and advocate for equal respect among different faith groups in Yale campus and New Haven community. The confidence in speaking its own voice and asserting an equal stance demonstrates that Yale MSA is an empowered Muslim community.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF MOSLEM SOCIETIES’S LEADERSHIP IN PERSPECTIVE OF NATIONAL INTEGRATION: A CASE STUDY IN PEGAYAMAN VILLAGE, BULELENG DISTRICT, BALI

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
I Nyoman Mardika
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
National Integration ◽  
Disintegration Process ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Village

Muslim communities which is located in Pegayaman Village, in Buleleng Regency, have a unique and ambivalent position. Nationally, they are part of the majority Muslim communities in Indonesia. However, since they located at Buleleng regency which is a Hindu majority, the communities certainly becomes a minority group. The Muslim community of Pegayaman can live in harmony and be able to integrate with other community as a minority. In the national integration of the Muslim Pegayaman community is able to blend with other communities without losing their cultural identity. This is inseparable from the system of values, beliefs amd cultural (religious) identity and leadership in the village. The concept was able to bring the Pegayaman Muslim community to maintain national intehration and keep them away from disintegration process.

scholarly journals The Politics of Veiling: A Study of Hijab and Female Muslim Identity Representation in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Maurisa Zinira
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
The Self ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Identity Representation ◽  
Religiosity And Spirituality

The increased number of hijabi women (women who wear hijab) in Indonesia presents changes in religious-socio-political lanscape of Muslim community in Indonesia. For hijabi, hijab is a technology for the self. It represents one’s identity through performance. Beside religious identity, hijab does explain hijabi’s social and economic status in the society. Especially with the growth of hijab industry, hijab becomes part of lifestyle. Tradition has now developed more into fashion. There emerge several hijab communities initiated by young hijabis to promote hijab trough popular culture. Looking through the phenomenon of hijab from this lense, it could be argued that hijab does not necessarily express hijabi’s religiosity and spirituality. Given certain contexts and meanings, each hijab style explains hijabi’s identity becoming instead of identity being. This paper discusses hijab focusing on two main concerns; first discussion relates to hijab and identity formation and the second relates to hijab and regulation of women’s bodies. 

scholarly journals Maintaining Indonesian Muslim Identity through Islamic Study Groups

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Moch Fakhruroji
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social System ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Muslim Identity

As a minority group in Australia, Indonesian Muslims are potentially experiencing identity crisis as they categorized as outsiders. This article describe how pengajian (Islamic study groups) and other socio-religious events among Indonesian Muslims as a constructive effort to change the perception of insiders over their social status in order to strengthen their identity as a member in a multicultural societies as theoretically, religion is believed to provide not only the meaning for life but also as social system which provides social control, cohesion, and purposes. Using the IMCV (Indonesian Muslim Community of Victoria) as a case, it could be identified that religious events can be a potential means to maintain their identity as Indonesian Muslims in the context of Australia

'The Proof is on My Palm': Debating Ethnicity, Islam and Ritual in a New African Diaspora

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
World Religion ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

AbstractFor Mandinga in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, life-course rituals are currently provoking transnational debates on ethnic and religious identity. In Guinea-Bissau, these two identities are thought to be one and the same—to be Mandinga is to 'naturally' be Muslim. For Mandinga immigrants in Portugal, however, the experience of transnationalism and the allure of 'global Islam' have thrust this long-held notion into debate. In this article, I explore the contours and consequences of this debate by focusing on the 'writing-on-the-hand' ritual, which initiates Mandinga children into Qur'anic study. Whereas some Mandinga immigrants in Portugal view the writing-on-the-hand ritual as essential for conferring both Muslim identity and 'Mandinga-ness', others feel that this Mandinga 'custom' should be abandoned for a more orthodox version of Islam. Case studies reveal an internal debate about Mandinga ethnicity, Islam and ritual, one that transcends the common 'traditionalist'/'modernist' distinction. I suggest that the internal debate, although intensified by migration, is not itself a consequence of 'modernity' but has long been central to how Mandinga imagine themselves as both members of a distinct ethnic group and as practitioners of the world religion of Islam.

scholarly journals THE E-MAIL GAME REVISITED — MODELING ROUGH INDUCTIVE REASONING

2007 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 323-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
UWE DULLECK
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Rational Behavior ◽  
To Come ◽  
Boundedly Rational Behavior ◽  
Expected Payoffs ◽  
E Mail

I study the robustness of Rubinstein's (1989) E-Mail Game results by varying the information that players can utilize. The article follows one of Morris' (2002) reactions to the E-Mail game "that one should try to come up with a model of boundedly rational behavior that delivers predictions that are insensitive to whether there is common knowledge or a large number of levels of knowledge". Players in my model are presumed to use 'rough inductive reasoning' because they cannot utilize exact information. The information structure in the E-Mail game is generalized and the conditions are characterized under which Rubinstein's results hold. I find that rough inductive reasoning generates a payoff dominant equilibrium where the expected payoffs change continuously (instead of discretely) in the probability of "faulty" communication.

scholarly journals Fra Sami Yusuf til Harris J Om islamske verdier og tematisering av muslimsk identitet gjennom halal-pop

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 115-131
Author(s):  
Mona Helen Farstad
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Religious Music ◽  
The Public ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Selection Of

Fear and suspicion towards Islam and Muslims have become increasingly prominent in the public debate. This represents a challenge for Muslim youth in their efforts to develop a positive religious identity. The point of departure in this article is how the new, Islamic pop industry, here represented by a selection of music and artists from Awakening Records, has responded to this situation by producing religious music specifically aimed at European/Western youth. The article analyses how musical genre, texts, images and videos work together and thematizes Muslim identity and Islamic values in different ways.  It is suggested that this material may serve as resources for the identity management of young European Muslims by offering alternative, positive narratives about Islam.Key words: Islamic pop-music, Muslim youth culture, Muslim identity, Awakening RecordsFrykt og mistenksomhet overfor islam og muslimer har blitt stadig mer fremtredende i den offentlige debatt. Dette representerer en utfordring for muslimsk ungdom i deres arbeid med å utvikle en positiv religiøs identitet. Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i hvordan den nye, islamske pop-industrien, her representert ved et utvalg musikk og artister fra Awakening Records, har respondert på denne situasjonen ved å produsere religiøs musikk spesielt rettet mot europeisk/vestlig ungdom. Artikkelen analyserer hvordan musikalsk uttrykk, tekster, bilder og videoer virker sammen og tematiserer muslimsk identitet og islamske verdier på ulike måter.  Det pekes på at dette materialet kan tjene som ressurser for unge, europeiske muslimers identitetsarbeid ved å tilby alternative, positive narrativ om islam.Nøkkelord: islamsk pop-musikk, muslimsk ungdomskultur, muslimsk identitet, Awakening Records

scholarly journals The Experience of Victimisation among Muslim Adolescents in the UK: The Effect of Psychological and Religious Factors

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Francis ◽  
Ursula McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Being Bullied ◽  
Religious Factors ◽  
The Uk

This study set out to explore the levels of victimisation experienced by Muslim adolescents in the UK, the extent to which victimisation is conceptualised in religious terms, and the extent to which individual differences in the experience of victimisation is related to personal factors, psychological factors and religious factors. Data provided by 335 13- to 15-year-old Muslim students from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales demonstrated that one in four Muslim students (25%) reported being bullied because of their religion. These students saw their religious identity as being a more important cause of their victimisation than their ethnicity, their colour, or their name. Male and female Muslim students were equally vulnerable to victimisation. Psychological and religious variables predicted individual differences in vulnerability to victimisation among Muslim students.

Democratic Deliberations, Equality of Influence, and Pragmatism

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 253-272
Author(s):  
Judith Baker
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Current Program ◽  
The Common ◽  
To Come ◽  
Ideal Framework ◽  
The Ideal

Democracy is committed to procedures of decision-making which express the values of both political equality and truth. One current program, that of strong or deliberative democracy, explicitly defends institutions which reflect the dual commitments to truth and equality. Like many other political theorists, however, deliberative democrats do not address the issue of a minority group which always loses the vote. The presumption is that free and equal deliberation by agents who think in terms of the common good is sufficient for political equality. I will argue, however, that the proposed deliberative procedures do not preclude persistent failure for a minority, and that this problem should lead us to acknowledge that power relations can underpin decision-making arrangements even within the ideal framework of deliberative democracy. Political equality and effective political equality seem to come apart.In order to come closer to the idea of effective political equality, this paper will look at the notion of equality of influence. It may seem tautological, and so redundant, to argue that political egalitarians and particularly deliberative democrats need to recognize equality of influence.

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