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Conceptualizing lived religious citizenship: a case-study of Christian and Muslim women in Norway and the United Kingdom

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posted on 2015-03-30, 11:14 authored by Line NyhagenLine Nyhagen
The concept of ‘religious citizenship’ is increasingly being used by scholars, but there are few attempts at defining it. This article argues that rights-based definitions giving primacy to status and rights are too narrow, and that feminist approaches to citizenship foregrounding identity, belonging and participation, as well as an ethics of care, provide a more comprehensive understanding of how religious women understand and experience their own ‘religious citizenship’. Findings from interviews with Christian and Muslim women in Oslo and Leicester suggest a close relationship between religious women’s faith and practice (‘lived religion’) and their ‘lived citizenship’. However, gender inequalities and status differences between majority and minority religions produce challenges to rights-based approaches to religious citizenship.

Funding

The research on which this manuscript is based, was funded by the European Union 6th Framework Programme (project number 028746).

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Citizenship Studies

Volume

19

Issue

6-7

Citation

NYHAGEN, L., 2015. Conceptualizing lived religious citizenship: a case-study of Christian and Muslim women in Norway and the United Kingdom. Citizenship Studies, 19(6/7), pp.768-784.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Citizenship Studies on 31st July 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13621025.2015.1049979.

ISSN

1469-3593

Language

  • en