On the Theoretical Approaches to the Study of the Ethno-Religious Identity of the Armenians

SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN CROATS IN CROATIA ON THE EXAMPLE OF OKRUG GORNJI

Geografski pregled ◽

10.35666/23038950.2020.42.39 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 39-55

Keyword(s):

Social Integration ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Regional Identity ◽

Human Geography ◽

Immigrant Population ◽

Identity Studies ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

The Social ◽

The Common

Social integration of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croats in Croatia on the example of Okrug Gornji The paper deals with the social integration of Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croats in Croatia on the example of the settlement of Okrug Gornji as a case study. Correlating the theoretical approaches of human geography and identity studies, the article deals with the phenomenon of migration as a research object in human geography through the relation of ethnic and regional identity as the factors of social integration of the immigrant population. The research proved that B&H Croats are mostly successfully integrated into the social context of Gornji Okrug without forms of spatial and social ghettoization. Being stronger than regional, the common ethnic (and religious) identity of domicile and immigrant population gives a positive impetus for successful integration of the immigrants.

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Identity, fashion and dress consumption by immigrants : a focus on ethnic dress and/or hijab

10.32920/ryerson.14660457.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Omono Gladys Akhigbe

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Multicultural Policy ◽

Religious Dress ◽

The Relationship ◽

Canadian Multiculturalism

This study highlights and explores how Canada’s multicultural policy influences the relationship between fashion and identity of racialized diaspora communities in Canada. It focuses on traditional dress and/or the Hijab, a religious dress among diaspora communities in Canada. However, the study demonstrates that consumption of these items among immigrants varies, with some immigrant communities displaying stronger ethnic identity than others. The consumption of these goods shapes one’s ethnic or religious identity. The two theoretical approaches shed insights on the complex relationship between ethnic fashion/dress, religious dress and ethnic identity. The study concludes that although symbols of ethnic identity such as ethnic fashion and/or religious dress are increasingly being contested due to political ideology, they have served members of their respective diasporic communities quite well in that they have allowed them to display and celebrate their identity, and thus produce a particular theme of their identity within Canadian multiculturalism. Key words: Fashion, ethnic dress/clothing, veil/religious dress, immigrants and diaspora.

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Identity, fashion and dress consumption by immigrants : a focus on ethnic dress and/or hijab

10.32920/ryerson.14660457 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Omono Gladys Akhigbe

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Political Ideology ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Multicultural Policy ◽

Religious Dress ◽

The Relationship ◽

Canadian Multiculturalism

This study highlights and explores how Canada’s multicultural policy influences the relationship between fashion and identity of racialized diaspora communities in Canada. It focuses on traditional dress and/or the Hijab, a religious dress among diaspora communities in Canada. However, the study demonstrates that consumption of these items among immigrants varies, with some immigrant communities displaying stronger ethnic identity than others. The consumption of these goods shapes one’s ethnic or religious identity. The two theoretical approaches shed insights on the complex relationship between ethnic fashion/dress, religious dress and ethnic identity. The study concludes that although symbols of ethnic identity such as ethnic fashion and/or religious dress are increasingly being contested due to political ideology, they have served members of their respective diasporic communities quite well in that they have allowed them to display and celebrate their identity, and thus produce a particular theme of their identity within Canadian multiculturalism. Key words: Fashion, ethnic dress/clothing, veil/religious dress, immigrants and diaspora.

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Theoretical Approaches to Sri Lankan History and the Early Portuguese Period

Modern Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0026749x04001052 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 190-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alan Strathern

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Sri Lanka ◽

Ethnic Conflict ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Sri Lankan ◽

The Past ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

History Of ◽

Theoretical Thinking ◽

A Site

In the past twenty years or so the history of Sri Lanka has become a site of vibrant controversy, largely because the current ethnic conflict has loaded any kind of reflection on the historical boundaries of political, ethnic or religious identity with an immediate emotional charge. The intellectual reverberations of post-colonialism and the vigorous contributions of anthropologists have added rich strata of theoretical thinking. However, despite one or two calls to the contrary, the periods of Portuguese (1505-1658) and Dutch influence (1658-1796) in the island have tended to moulder on the periphery of these debates. The purpose of this article is to bring some of this thinking to bear on the evidence from the sixteenth century in order to stimulate fresh perspectives on both the events of that time and the models themselves. With the arrival of the Portuguese and their increasing involvement in the affairs of the island during the long reign of Bhuvanekabahu VII (1521-51), the darkness of the Kotte period is suddenly illuminated by wonderfully detailed flashes of events. The flurry of letters written by contemporary Portuguese settlers, officials and missionaries, and the attentions of Portuguese chroniclers such as João de Barros, Diogo do Couto, Gaspar Correia and Fernão de Queirós bring quite new forms of evidence into the historian's purview.

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THE DYNAMICS OF RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOUR AND CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG URBAN POPULATION IN ARMENIA (COMPARATIVE ETHNOSOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF 1980-2005)

10.22250/2072-8662.2021.4.136-143 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 136-143

Author(s):

RUBEN S. KARAPETYAN ◽

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NELLI R. KHACHATURIAN ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Urban Population ◽

Dynamical Analysis ◽

Demographic Groups ◽

Religious Consciousness ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Wide Scale ◽

The Republic ◽

And Behavior

The development of contemporary societies is in many ways associated with ethnoreligious processes, modifications of religious consciousness, behavior, and religious identity. Their studying, besides theoretical approaches, will require a systematically arranged empirical knowledge. The article analytically presents dynamical analysis of religious processes in Armenia based upon three wide-scale periodic ethnosociological studies with gaps of 12 years. The said ethnosociological studies were held among Armenia’s urban population using the methods of standard interview involving 4000, 2000 and 2000 people in 1980, 1993 and 2005 respectively. Beside other clusters of problems, the research program included subjects associated with a changing character of religious consciousness and behavior of diverse socio-demographic groups of people dwelling in five cities of the Republic. Responses showing respondents’ attitudes to religion, the pretext for attending church, attitudes to the religious and ritual practices were chosen as indicators - all within the context of diverse facets of public relations...

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