Conflict and coexistence among minorities within minority religions: a case study of Tablighi Jama’at in Japan

IF 1.3 0 RELIGION Religion State & Society Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI:10.1080/09637494.2023.2222616
Hirofumi Okai, Norihito Takahashi
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ABSTRACT Research on religion and minorities in Japan has tended to focus on the relationship between majority and minority religions or between religion and social minorities. This contribution turns to consider the relationship between minorities within ‘minority religions’ and their efforts to coexist. It takes the case of the global Islamic movement Tablighi Jama’at, which started to become powerfully active in Japan with the arrival of large numbers of Muslim migrant workers from various countries in the late 1980s. Since then, Tablighi Jama’at has undergone significant expansion and diversification in Japan. Drawing on both participant observation and interviews, this contribution discusses these developments and related processes of religious and social localisation, which have created tensions between core members, first-generation migrants who make up the majority of participants, and the growing number of second-generation members and Japanese converts who were until recently in a relatively inferior position. This contribution reveals that there can be multiple subgroups within minority groups. The intersection of these various elements can also define power relations and the majority/minority status of people within minority groups. However, the case of Tablighi Jama’at in Japan also shows that power relations between subgroups are potentially fluid.
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少数民族宗教内部的冲突与共存:以日本Tablighi Jama 'at为例
日本对宗教与少数群体的研究往往侧重于多数宗教与少数宗教之间的关系或宗教与社会少数群体之间的关系。这篇文章转而考虑“少数宗教”中少数群体之间的关系以及他们共存的努力。它以全球伊斯兰运动Tablighi Jama 'at为例,该运动在20世纪80年代末随着大量来自各国的穆斯林移民工人的到来,开始在日本变得非常活跃。从那时起,Tablighi Jama 'at在日本经历了显著的扩张和多样化。根据参与者的观察和访谈,本文讨论了这些发展以及宗教和社会本地化的相关过程,这些发展和过程在核心成员、占参与者大多数的第一代移民、以及越来越多的第二代成员和日本皈依者之间造成了紧张关系,这些成员直到最近才处于相对较低的地位。这一贡献揭示了在少数群体中可能存在多个子群体。这些不同因素的交集也可以定义权力关系和少数群体中人的多数/少数地位。然而,日本Tablighi Jama 'at的案例也表明,子群体之间的权力关系可能是不稳定的。
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期刊介绍: Religion, State & Society has a long-established reputation as the leading English-language academic publication focusing on communist and formerly communist countries throughout the world, and the legacy of the encounter between religion and communism. To augment this brief Religion, State & Society has now expanded its coverage to include religious developments in countries which have not experienced communist rule, and to treat wider themes in a more systematic way. The journal encourages a comparative approach where appropriate, with the aim of revealing similarities and differences in the historical and current experience of countries, regions and religions, in stability or in transition.
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