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T1  - Praying for One Umma : Rhetorical Construction of a Global Islamic Community in the Facebook Prayers of Young Finnish Muslims 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/312749 
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A1  - Pauha, Teemu 
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Y1  - 2017 
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AB  - In this paper, I demonstrate how a universalising Muslim identity is constructed in the Facebook prayers of young Finnish Muslims. By analysing the rhetorical devices utilized in the prayer updates, I argue that the prayers serve a function similar to the ‘flagging’ of national identity; the prayers portray the Islamic umma as a unified community and seek to diminish possible counter-discourses that emphasise ethnic divisions among Muslims. This study thus supports earlier observations of a nove... 
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KW  - 5144 Social psychology; Nuorisotutkimus; nuoriso; 515 Psychology; uskontopsykologia; 614 Theology; uskontotiede; ISLAM; islam ja Eurooppa 
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