Religious Diaspora

A New Approach to Its Existence and Meaning

Bibliographic Data

ID4843951
AuthorsAlina Pătru (0000-0002-5811-8306, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue10
Pages831
Publication date2021-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12100831
OpenAlexW3203001089
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

The present study aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the possibility of conceptualizing a religious diaspora. It proposes a new way of defining it, namely in relation to religious and not to ethno-territorial realities, but without editing the territorial dimension out. After sketching the definition on this theoretical basis, the study refers to six case studies, pointing to the way in which the definitory traits of a religious diaspora are actualized in each situation under study. The evaluation unravels the strengths of the concept as well as certain aspects that still need to be addressed in further research. The inference is that the capacity of religion to generate diasporic feelings and attitudes should also be acknowledged and that the concept of religious diaspora ought to be treated as an analytic instrument useful both in the research and in the decision-making process

Aesthetics · Diaspora · Epistemology · Feeling · Sociology · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Mathematics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy

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