Inaugural Australasian Conference on Islam
“Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies”
Date: 24–26 November 2013
Conference hosts: Centre for Islamic Studies & Civilisation, Charles Sturt University and the Islamic Sciences & Research Academy of Australia (ISRA)
Place: Sydney, Australia (venue TBA)
Abstract submission date: 28 February 2013
Organising chairperson: Dr Derya Iner diner@csu.edu.au
Background
Muslims and Muslim societies are rapidly changing in the modern world. The revival and resurgence of Islam wherever Muslims live – including Muslim minorities in Australia, the West and Asia-Pacific – shows that Muslims are more and more turning to their faith with a hope to meet their spiritual needs and address their social and political problems. In doing so, Islam forms or transforms the identities of individual Muslims as well as the identities of the societies in which they live. At the same time, Muslims’ response to religious, cultural and social circumstances around them influence the way their identities are shaped within increasingly religiously diverse societies. Although religious diversity is more pronounced in the Western and Asia-Pacific context, such diversity even exists in predominantly Muslim societies. Key drivers in identity formation include Islam, nature and level of Islamic education, generational transition, the nature and extent of religious diversity and rapidly changing social and political landscape. How all these factors impinge on the identity formation of Muslims and Muslim societies will be explored in this conference.
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