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While globalization and the European construction increasingly
undermine the model of the nation-state in the Mediterranean world,
conversions reveal the capacity of religion to disrupt, and
unsettle previous understandings of political and social relations.
Converts' claims and practice are often met with the hostility of
the state and the public while converts can often be perceived
either as traitors or as unconscious and weak tools of foreign
manipulation. Based on first-hand ethnographical research from
several countries throughout the Mediterranean region, this book is
the first of its kind in studying and analyzing contemporary
conversions and their impact on recasting ideas of nationalism and
citizenship. In doing so, this interdisciplinary study confronts
historical, anthropological, political science and sociological
approaches which offers an insight into the national, legal and
political challenges of legislating for religious minorities that
arise from conversions. Moreover, the specific examination of
contemporary religious conversion contributes more widely to
debates about the delinking of religion and culture, globalization,
and secularism.
While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the
Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle
existing political and social relations. Through studies of
conversions across the region this book examines the challenges
that conversions represent for national, legal and policy ways of
dealing with religious minorities.
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