Bruhn, Camilla Paludan

Engberg, Laura Wilshaw

Hansen, Anne Boje

Johansen, Louise

Olsen, Anne-Mette Munch

Weller, Camilla Vallentin

This assignment deals with negotiations of religious identity, as it appears on two selected Islamic online matchmaking sites. We have thereby shown how the users of the matchmaking sites represent themselves as well as how the partner that is desired is getting articulated at the selected users profile texts. Furthermore we have analyzed debates that arise from these matchmaking sites concerning the legitimacy of the matchmaking sites being, as it occurs on IslamiC.dk and Facebook. The setting for this projects interest has its grounding in the meeting between modernity and traditionalism, both when it comes to the matchmaking sites as a tool in the search of a partner, but also as parameters to analyze the negotiation of the praxis of Islam. In the analysis of the project, we have investigated the representations of members in the collective identification, and shown how group-identification and categories appears within the collective trough these representations. In order to answer the thesis statement the project is theoretically based on terms from Stuart Hall and Richard Jenkins. We have been able to note, that the negotiations of meaning of religious identity have caused a tension, and with the use of Homi Bhabbha’s theoretical terms of Hybridity and The Third Space we have discussed the possibility, of the appearance of new subject positions through the negotiation of the construction of religious identity, the individuals in the collective can enter.This assignment deals with negotiations of religious identity, as it appears on two selected Islamic online matchmaking sites. We have thereby shown how the users of the matchmaking sites represent themselves as well as how the partner that is desired is getting articulated at the selected users profile texts. Furthermore we have analyzed debates that arise from these matchmaking sites concerning the legitimacy of the matchmaking sites being, as it occurs on IslamiC.dk and Facebook. The setting for this projects interest has its grounding in the meeting between modernity and traditionalism, both when it comes to the matchmaking sites as a tool in the search of a partner, but also as parameters to analyze the negotiation of the praxis of Islam. In the analysis of the project, we have investigated the representations of members in the collective identification, and shown how group-identification and categories appears within the collective trough these representations. In order to answer the thesis statement the project is theoretically based on terms from Stuart Hall and Richard Jenkins. We have been able to note, that the negotiations of meaning of religious identity have caused a tension, and with the use of Homi Bhabbha’s theoretical terms of Hybridity and The Third Space we have discussed the possibility, of the appearance of new subject positions through the negotiation of the construction of religious identity, the individuals in the collective can enter

Matchmaking, inshallah - forhandling af religiøs identitet på islamiske matchmaking-sider

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