Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Identities, Citizenship and Social Belonging

Transnational Identities and Religious Traditions: A Case of Religious Double Belonging in India

Archaeology and cultural belonging in contemporary Syria: the value of archaeology to religious minorities

This paper has evolved out of a series of community projects that I have initiated in Syria since 1997. My hypothesis is that a knowledge of the archaeological remains and religious traditions of a region bring local people more in touch with their cultural roots and encourage a sense of belonging. This is particularly the case when a religious minority feels disenfranchised by the majority gro...

Collective Identities and Citizenship

In the following I tI)' to show that there is an attractive notion of citizenship which is independent of any kind of collective identity. Citizenship is understood as one fonn of social interaction. It is argued that in order to understand social interaction adequate1y, it is necessary to introduce a structuraJ. theory ofpractical rationality, to the extent this conception of citizenship is ba...

Social exclusion and xenophobia: Intolerant attitudes toward ethnic and religious minorities

The present research investigates the effects of social exclusion on attitudes toward ethnic and religious minorities. Native-born German participants who were socially excluded rather than included reported greater approval for stricter legislation regarding the naturalization of immigrants (Study 1), reported greater prejudice against openly observant Muslims (Studies 2 and 3), and stronger a...

the quality of urban services, citizenship commitment and sense of social belonging

introduction: problem statement: “sense of social belonging” is one of the human basic needs which is the outcome of social relationships and may have generally many impacts on social pathologies and specifically on local deviations. the aim of the present study is examining and identifying the relationship between municipality performance and citizenship commitments and sense of social belongi...