Les musulmans en Italie face au Covid. L’altérité dans l’“autre vie”

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L’altérité dans l’“autre vie”

Articolo

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STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA

Fascicolo

STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA - 2023 - 3

Titolo

Les musulmans en Italie face au Covid. L’altérité dans l’“autre vie”

Muslims in Italy Facing Covid. Otherness in the “Other Life”

Autori

Stefano Allievi, Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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10-2023

Doi

10.26350/000309_000170

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0039-291X (stampa) | 1827-7896 (digitale)

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Islam in Italy is highly discussed but not significantly institutionalized. Polemics about its presence (and anti-multiculturalism in general) have often preceded any real multicultural politics, and the recognition of religious minorities arrived with immigration, such as Islam. The Covid pandemics has made visible one of the aspects of the necessary de facto acknowledgement of the presence of Islam: the problem of Muslim cemeteries, up to that moment avoided or postponed as much as possible by local municipalities, with few exceptions. As an outcome of an empirical research on Muslim in Italy during the pandemics, the paper aims to explore the different attitudes of Muslims families and communities facing the problem of being buried in the municipality they lived in, instead of repatriating the bodies as it was the most common procedure until Covid. The research shows the attempt of Muslims to minimize friction with Italian norms and institutions, through a re-interpretation of the symbolic border between Muslims and non-Muslims, and the idea of purity, contamination and separation.

keywords

Islam, Muslims in Europe, Death and burial, Immigration, Covid-19.

Biografia degli autori

Stefano Allievi, Università di Padova. Email: stefano.allievi@unipd.it.
Mohammed Khalid Rhazzali, Università di Padova e Centro Interuniversitario FIDR. Email: khalid.rhazzali@unipd.it.