{"id":6537,"date":"2024-12-06T12:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/multireligious-utopias-youth-secularization-and-islamic-education-across-the-western-indian-ocean-world\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:59:38","slug":"multireligious-utopias-youth-secularization-and-islamic-education-across-the-western-indian-ocean-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/multireligious-utopias-youth-secularization-and-islamic-education-across-the-western-indian-ocean-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Multireligious Utopias? Youth, Secularization and Islamic Education Across the Western Indian Ocean World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multireligious Utopias? Youth, Secularization and Islamic Education Across the Western Indian Ocean World <\/h2>\n\n<p>(working title) \/ &#8216;Generation Absent: Youth Identity and Belonging in the &#8220;Zanzibar Diaspora&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Dr. Franziska Fay<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>At the center of the comparative, ethnographic research project, whose majority Muslim and multi-religious urban research fields are located in Zanzibar City (Tanzania), Mombasa (Kenya) and Muscat (Oman), was the question of the conditions of multi-religious coexistence in times of decreasing tolerance with regard to religious diversity. The investigation of &#8216;multi-religious utopias&#8217; makes it possible to question the qualities and characteristics of a social idea of &#8216;modernity&#8217;, which is characterized by the positive emphasis on intra- and inter-religious heterogeneity. Interfaith centers, which use project approaches to bring children and young people of different faiths together, were central points of orientation with regard to the project&#8217;s interest in knowledge.<br\/>The postdoctoral project was continued in 2020 under the title &#8220;Generation Absent: Youth Identity and Belonging in the &#8220;Zanzibar Diaspora&#8221;&#8221;. The habilitation project, which emerged from the findings during the field research phases, then focused centrally on the contemporary translocal identity constructions of young people in the so-called &#8216;Zanzibar Diaspora&#8217; (Zanzibari Omanis and Omani Zanzibaris), of which religious attribution processes are an integral part. Methodologically, the project relied on ethnographic research methods such as interviews and observations, but also on a dense analysis of social media spaces, also due to the Corona-related change in the research situation.    <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Fay, Franziska: Ordinary Childhoods, Islam and the Everyday in Zanzibar. Journal of the British Academy [Special Issue: Searching for the Everyday in African Childhoods] (in preparation) <\/p>\n\n<p>Fay, Franziska: Blending Belongings: Young Swahili-speaking Omanis and the Postdiaspora in Contemporary Oman. Arabian Humanities, Vol 15 [Special Issue: Oman Over Times: A Nation from the Nahda to the Oman Vision 2040] (under review) <\/p>\n\n<p>Fay, Franziska: Living with Absence: Waiting Youth, Belonging, and the Contemporary &#8216;Zanzibar Diaspora&#8217;. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies &#8211; Special Issue, Edited by Walker, Iain and Martin Slama. (forthcoming)  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>events<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Waswahili (Vijana) wa Oman na Dhana ya &#8216;Zanzibar Diaspora'&#8221;, Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin (BALAKI-BE), ZMO (online) (2020)<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;After Waithood? Contemporary Approaches to Research with Youth Across &#8216;Muslim Worlds&#8217;.&#8221; Organizer, International Workshop, Research Centre Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt (2020) <\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Youth Identity and Belonging in the Zanzibar Diaspora&#8221;, Presenter, Conference: Us and Them: Diasporas for Others in the Indian Ocean, Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin-Luther University Halle, Germany (2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Franziska Fay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6538,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}