Body politic or bodies of culture? how nation-state practices turn citizens into religious minorities

Cultural Dynamics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-280

  Baumann, Gerd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diaspora; London; Migration; Religion; Secularization

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; ETHNIC MINORITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; NATION STATE; RELIGION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032437334     PISSN: 09213740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/092137409801000302     Document Type: Article

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