CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Pradipta, Andamar |
|---|---|
| Title | Halal Food and Human-God Relationship: The Study of Muslim Indonesian Students in Stockholm |
| Summary | One of the rules written in the Quran is that Muslims shall consume only halal food and drink. Since Indonesia is a Muslim-majority country, the society accommodates Muslims with easy access to halal products, or at least such is the common assumption among Indonesians. This thesis follows a group of Muslim Indonesian students who study in Stockholm and their reactions to the lack of options for halal food. The findings suggest that the freedom of interpreting the Quran plays a pivotal role in producing the diversity of decisions of how and what to eat among Muslim Indonesian students. Moreover, since such difficult decision making is not required when these students are in Indonesia, they are then forced to rearticulate their perception towards their own belief and reinvent themselves as full-fledged religious beings as soon as they step into the secular environment of Stockholm. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad; Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/pradipta_andamar.pdf |
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