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  1. Identification and Belonging: A Case Study of White German Women Converts to Islam.Lana Sirri - 2021 - Feminist Theology 30 (1):104-119.
    This study explores the possibilities of identification and belonging in a socio-religious space that contains multiple communal boundaries. It is based on narrated accounts of White Christian German women living in Berlin, Germany, who have converted to Islam. Their shared cultural background with other White German women, their new Islamic religion, and, for some, their intermarriage affiliation with Muslims, position these women in a complex relation to the multiple communities within this space. This intersectional positioning opens up possibilities for constructing, (...)
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  • A Sense of Belonging in Re-Membering: Anthropocosmic Connection in the Twenty-First Century.C. A. Hale - 2013 - World Futures 69 (1):45 - 60.
    In the current century, geographic and psychological separations from familial and cultural connections have become endemic. The various fields of social sciences have made belonging vis à vis existential alienation a focal issue with an emphasis on the need for localized belonging. This article argues that there is an innate predisposition within the self that must connect to another, a ?re-membering??a compelling humanistic need to connect and become a member, yet again, of a greater collective. It is suggested herein that (...)
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  • `Flagging' the Skin: Corporeal Nationalism and the Properties of Belonging.Emily Grabham - 2009 - Body and Society 15 (1):63-82.
    Just as the nation is imagined and produced through everyday rhetoric and maps and flags, it is also constructed on the skin, and through bodies, by different types of corporeal `flagging'. In this article, I use two examples of contemporary surgical procedures to explore these dynamics. Aesthetic surgeries on `white' subjects are not often interrogated for their racializing effects, but I use the concept of `flagging' to explore how these surgeries work in the UK to align `white' bodies with a (...)
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