Shifting markers of identity in East London's diasporic religious spaces

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2147192
AutoresNazneen Ahmed (0000-0003-4274-801X, University College London), Jane Garnett (0000-0003-2233-6608, University of Oxford), Ben Gidley (0000-0003-2492-1384, Birkbeck, University of London, autor de correspondencia), Alana Harris (0000-0002-3155-0211), M Keith (0000-0002-9448-2674)
Año2016
Volumen39
Número2
Páginas223-242
Fecha de publicación2016-01-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1105993
OpenAlexW2216803795
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas28

This article discusses the historical and geographical contexts of diasporic religious buildings in East London, revealing - contrary both to conventional narratives of immigrant integration, mobility, and succession and to identitarian understandings of belonging - that in such spaces and in the concrete devotional practices enacted in them, markers and boundaries of identity (ritual, spatial, and political) are contested, renegotiated, erased, and rewritten. It draws on a series of case-studies: Fieldgate Street Synagogue in its interrelationship with the East London Mosque; St Antony's Catholic Church in Forest Gate where Hindus and Christians worship together; and the intertwined histories of Methodism and Anglicanism in Bow Road. Exploration of the intersections between ethnicity, religiosity, and class illuminates the ambiguity and instability of identity-formation and expression within East London's diasporic faith spaces

Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Archaeology · Art · Ethnic group · Evangelism · Faith · Identity (music · Islam · Literature · Methodism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Sociology · Theology · Worship · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Religious studies