Muslims on the Map: A National Survey of Social Trends in by Serena Hussain

By Serena Hussain

Many religion teams within the united kingdom - such a lot particularly Muslims - have lately challenged the concept that faith can be predominantly an issue for the personal area. in keeping with this problem, the 2001 nationwide Census incorporated the query of non secular association. utilizing the large-scale facts of the 2001 nationwide Census, 'Muslims at the Map' has created the 1st lengthy awaited neighborhood profile which seems to be at Muslims as a whole religion group from a sociological and social coverage standpoint. In her research Serena Hussain finds the social place of Muslims as a gaggle in comparison to different religion groups when it comes to academic skills, financial job and housing stipulations and as verified by way of different poverty symptoms. In doing so she offers the 1st major, entire portrait of Muslim groups in sleek Britain.

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E Shi Towards a Religious Identity: External Rejection Maalouf () explains that people oen have the tendency to acknowledge themselves through the affiliation that is most attacked. So in the case of Muslims in Britain, their ‘Muslimness’ is attacked. Citizenship alone cannot encapsulate the notion of belonging; in a state that generally originates in ethnic bonding, new immigrants gravitate towards their own cultural and social groups. In the UK this assertion of a more religious identity was facilitated primarily by the Rushdie affair (Mohammad ).

E topic is new to the Census and will help provide information which would supplement the output from the ethnicity question by identifying ethnic minority sub-groups, particularly those originating from the Indian sub-continent, in terms of religion. e  Census Religious Affiliation Group () was set up to follow on from the sub-group.  had its first meeting on  June     and Professor Francis remained in his role as the group convenor.   saw their main task to be lobbying key Ministers to ensure their support for the question: ‘ere was agreement that it would now be appropriate for the group to make appropriate representations to politicians ahead of the publication of the White paper’ (Francis b) During the meeting itself this was re-iterated and noted that a list of useful political and religious contacts was needed.

He argues that the domain of religion the question will capture will be on religious affiliation, even membership, and that religious bodies will already have this information available to them. erefore the additional information will be rendered useless. is was an objection that a Hindu spokesperson had on the questions inclusion in the Census. He argued that religious bodies should be allocated resources to conduct surveys of their own communities to complement the statistics they already have.

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