Emotional Motivations of Islamic Activism Autobiographies and Personal Engagement in Political Action

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Linjakumpu, Aini Maarit Helena

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2017

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The article examines autobiographies of persons who have belonged to different Islamic groups. The so-called cycle of engagement of an individual person – a “personal protest cycle” – to the Islamic activism is examined through the autobiographies. The main questions will be: how did one become an Islamic activist; how did the actual engagement occur; how did the activism evolve and how did the disengagement from the activism take place? Politics of emotions forms a general framework for understanding political activism and, more generally, protest or oppositional politics. |Keywords: Islam, activism, autobiographies, emotions, protest cycle

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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University

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http://hdl.handle.net/10504/109163

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https://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/toc/2017.html

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Journal of Religion and Society