Communication and Inculturation of Multi-Ethnic Sufi Communities in Berlin Cover Image

Komunikacja a inkulturacja w wieloetnicznych sufickich wspólnotach Berlina
Communication and Inculturation of Multi-Ethnic Sufi Communities in Berlin

Author(s): Oleg Yarosh
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: authority; inculturation; communication; converts; Sufism; hybrid community

Summary/Abstract: The present paper focuses on the models of communication and mechanisms of acculturation of Muslims converts of European origin in the multiethnic Sufi communities in socio-cultural context of the European megapolis. Sufi communities are considered here as social groups formed by representatives of the Muslim diasporas and Europeans-converts, assembled around religious authority in the person of Sheikh and on the ground of common beliefs, values, norms, symbols and meanings that are shared by their members in the process of interaction in varying degrees, depending on their own socio-cultural predispositions.

  • Issue Year: VII/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 149-165
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish