Negotiating a contested identity: Religious individualism among Muslim youth in a super-diverse city

摘要: Abstract This paper aims to understand how young Muslims in the super-diverse city of Antwerp negotiate tensions between their religious identification and broader cultural framework individualism. Young face challenge present themselves as autonomous, while maintaining identification. Based on 26 interviews with Muslim students two secondary schools, we describe presenting a dignified self both non-Muslim audiences requires delicate balancing act. Drawing conceptually from sociology, explore our respondents towards various by selectively employing elements repertoire ‘religious individualism’. In analysis, examine four ways which employ this rework potential agentive within framework. We also discuss negotiating contested identity more taxing boundary work for girls, they gender norms without denying Overall, analysis demonstrates West European context engage complex creatively draw individualism multiple identifications.