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Religiosity and Self-Identification Processes Among Young Muslims in Italy Dottorato di Ricerca in Sociologia, Organizzazioni, Culture Ciclo XXXI S.S.D. 14 – SPS 07/SPS 08 RELIGIOSITY AND SELF-IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES AMONG YOUNG MUSLIMS IN ITALY Coordinatore: Ch.Ma Prof.ssa EManuela MORA Tesi di Dottorato di GIULIA MEZZETTI Matricola n. 4511727 Anno AccadeMico 2017/2018 Table of Contents List of pictures .............................................................................................................................................. iii Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................................... v INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 1 PART I. THE NEED AND MEANING OF STUDYING ISLAM AS AN EVERYDAY LIVED RELIGION ................. 13 Chapter 1. Major trends in the religiosity of Muslim migrants’ descendants ...................................... 15 1. Muslim youths’ religious vitality? The salience of Islam as an identifier .................................................... 15 2. An individualized and culture-less Islam ....................................................................................................... 18 3. The role of context: Islamic identity in non-Muslim societies ..................................................................... 20 4. The need to study Islam as an everyday lived religion................................................................................. 23 Chapter 2. The study of religion as lived in the everyday. A research stance ...................................... 26 1. Personalized and de-institutionalized religion ............................................................................................. 26 2. What does it mean to study everyday lived religion? .................................................................................. 30 3. The social relevance of everyday religion: strategies and tactics ............................................................... 35 PART II. THE PRESENT RESEARCH .............................................................................................................. 39 Chapter 3. The everyday lived religion of youths of Muslim background ............................................ 41 1. The performative character of Islam ............................................................................................................ 41 2. Islamic orthodoxy as a discursive tradition................................................................................................... 44 3. Internal and external discourses ................................................................................................................... 45 4. Engaging everyday with internally and externally-defined religious normativity ...................................... 48 5. Power dynamics and scholarly research: organized vs non-organized Islam ............................................. 53 Chapter 4. Comparing organized and non-organized youths of Muslim background ......................... 57 1. What is the present research about, and why. The rationale of the present study .................................. 57 2. Research questions ........................................................................................................................................ 64 3. Research design ............................................................................................................................................. 66 PART III. THE SETTINGS OF THE RESEARCH ............................................................................................... 77 Chapter 5. The treatment of Muslims in Italy and the different configurations of Islam in Milan and Turin ......................................................................................................................................................... 79 1. The tropes of the “external discourse”: securitarian and culturalist framings of Muslims in the West ... 79 2. The perception and the management of migrants and of Islam in Italy ..................................................... 82 3. Islam in Milan and Turin ................................................................................................................................ 89 4. The local configuration of Islam: different opportunities for youths of Muslim background ................... 97 Chapter 6. “We are not a religious organization”. Islamic Relief and its Italian branch ................... 101 1. Islamic Relief: “faith-inspired” action. The organization’s foundation and development ....................... 101 2. The Italian branch ........................................................................................................................................ 106 i PART IV. INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF A RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION................................................................ 117 Chapter 7. Religion as free-floaters. Living Islam remotely from religious organizations ................. 119 1. Religious socialization and (non-)religiousness .......................................................................................... 119 2. Want to get involved? No, thanks! ............................................................................................................. 130 Chapter 8. Muslimness in the foreground, Muslimness in the background. The strategies of the Italian branch of Islamic Relief ............................................................................................................ 136 1. Muslimness in the foreground: addressing the Muslim community ........................................................ 136 2. Muslimness in the background: addressing the non-Muslim public......................................................... 154 3. What strategies? And what tactics? ........................................................................................................... 160 PART V. EXPERIENCES OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DISCOURSES ABOUT ISLAM .................................. 165 Chapter 9. Religious reflexivity in the everyday. Challenging the internal discourse? ....................... 167 1. Adhering to religious tenets and normativity ............................................................................................. 168 2. Doubts, difficulties, uncertainties in enacting religious normativity ......................................................... 174 3. Critically engaging with religious tenets… or with their imposition? ........................................................ 178 4. What relationship can there be with religious “grand schemes”? Religious reflexivity and the strength of normativity ....................................................................................................................................................... 181 5. Conciliating concept and experience: the “making” of religion ................................................................ 183 Chapter 10. Patterns and practices of visibility. Challenging the external discourse? ...................... 186 1. Sought-for visibility ...................................................................................................................................... 187 2. Unwilling visibility ......................................................................................................................................... 191 3. Invisible Muslimness .................................................................................................................................... 196 4. Visible? Invisible? Both? .............................................................................................................................. 199 CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................................................................................................... 203 BIBLIOGRAPHY ......................................................................................................................................................... 215 ii List of pictures Picture 1. Islamic Relief logo……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 104 Picture 2. Advertisement of the Open Day for volunteers organized in Turin………………………….. 111 Picture 3. Advertisement of two “Challenges”: a trekking trip and a cycling trip……………………… 114 Picture 4. Prayer times on the Italian website………………………………………………………………………….. 138 Picture 5. Friday prayer reminder……………………………………………………………………………………………. 138 Picture 6. Countdown to Ramadan………………………………………………………………………………………….. 139 Picture 7. Tenth suggestion about Ramadan……………………………………………………………………………. 139 Picture 8. Malcom X quote………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 140 Picture 9. “Pills of Ramadan”…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 140 Picture 10. Call to donate for Ghouta (Syria)……………………………………………………………………………. 142 Picture 11. Appeal to donate for Palestine on the occasion of the incidents occurred during the protests at the border in the Gaza strip. Spring 2018………………………………………………………… 142 Picture 12. Ramadan appeal for the donation of food aid……………………………………………………….. 143 Picture 13. Appeal for the donation of Qurbani meat……………………………………………………………… 144 Picture 14. Ramadan food distribution in Italy. 2018……………………………………………………………….. 145 Picture 15. The Islamic Relief volunteers’ annual camp……………………………………………………………. 150 Picture 16. Program of
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