Abstract

Growing up in the shadow of the Holy Shroud. Muslims’ second generations in Italy

Highlights

  • The article will examine the intergenerational differences in the ethno-religious identity of Muslim Italians, and the findings will be incorporated into the broader literature on their second generation, acculturation, and religiosity

  • The study focuses on the following questions: a) how do Muslims in the second generation, as a group, express their religious identity, and b) are there any differences in the religious identity of the second-generation Muslims and their parents? The problem of the ethno-religious adaptation of the second-generation Muslims in Italy is an important area of research, given the negative media attitudes after 9/11 in the context where one of the political parties, the League of the North, uses religious differences to combat immigration, highlighting the distance between the younger generation of Muslims and others

  • If this is true for the first generation of immigrants, what happens to the second? The question of how faith, ethnicity and level of acculturation relate to each other is very relevant in the Italian scenario, where the majority of its residents still continue to define themselves as Catholic and where even among immigrants the proportion of Christians is the main one, followed by that of Muslims

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Summary

Introduction

A lot of Italians still believe that they live in a cloud without any interactions with other worlds: we are here and we will continue to live, work, spend our free time and pray in Italy, wearing the veil or not, this is not really important (F, Moroccan, 21 years old).

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