Padua's Muslim: on the new Italian Islamic identities

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Agustina Adela Zaros

Abstract

The proposed text reflects on the Muslim community and families in Padua including interviews in order to individuate the practices of the transmission of beliefs within the family and the continuity of the group. Mainly from the development of three main points: religious socialization, community representation as umma, according to the mandate of Give to Islam as well of the dichotomy we Muslims / they Christians discourses. Finally, the meanings of identities governed by ethnicity and / or religion and new generations with current debates and struggles identified as new collective identities. That is, the reinterpretation allows the emergence of a new collective identity that makes use of practices that are in tension with the host society emerging like a political force.

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ZAROS, Agustina Adela. Padua’s Muslim: on the new Italian Islamic identities. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 13, n. 38, p. 706–732, 2015. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2015v13n38p706. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2015v13n38p706. Acesso em: 9 aug. 2025.
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Agustina Adela Zaros, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad de Padova

Doctora en Ciencias Sociales por la universidad de Padova (UNIPD), Magister en Comunicacion y cultura por la universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)