TY  - JOUR
AB  - Recourse to religion can escalate as well as de-escalate intergroup conflict – so the emerging academic consensus. But the “ambivalence of the sacred” (Appleby 2000) concerns not only violent or non-violent movements or ideologies, it is also experienced on the micro-level of religious identities and individual agency. This article takes two female Muslim peace activists’ biographical narratives and psychometric profiles to illustrate how the ambivalence and ambiguity of religion towards violent conflict unfolds its dynamics on the individual level. Both women struggle with and fight for religion in Gujarat, India – and both experience their own Muslimness as ambivalent and/or ambiguous. Their stories highlight the relevance of explorative empirical methods on the individual micro-level for an adequate understanding of religio-political conflict.
DA  - 2011
DO  - 10.11588/iaf.2011.42.156
LA  - ger
IS  - 3-4
M2  - 299
PY  - 2011
SN  - 0020-9449
SP  - 299-317
T2  - Internationales Asienforum
TI  - "Opfer" und "Aktivistin": Zwei Muslima aus Gujarat ringen mit der Ambivalenz des Sakralen
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-24846827
Y2  - 2024-11-22T15:21:34
ER  -