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Albert Younas
Student
Salzburg University
E-Mail: alberAoPYt.y04Zhounas@zT9estudstKI.sbZhLUg.ac.S@04atVust
Topic/Title: The Christian minority of Pakistan. Social and Culture Shaping their Religious Situation
PhD Supervisor: Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Martin Rötting
PhD Co-Supervisor: Univ.-Prof.in Dr.inGunda Werne
Abstract:
This dissertation aims to study and analyze the Social and Culture shaping the lives and religious situation of minorities in Pakistan. South Asia is a region where religious patriotism and mainstream supremacy have taken control of the business in all spares, including social, political in Pakistan. Pakistan is shuffles between the two extreme groups, a liberal Muslim and extremists Muslims, a theocratic state provides the majority Muslim with a privileged status at the cost of disadvantaged religious minorities. Christians are a significantly the minority group in Pakistan, who have played a very vital role in the social, political and economic development of Pakistan. The majority of Muslims in Pakistan are acutely aware of the valuable contribution which their non-Muslim compatriots (mainly Christian) have made and continue to make towards enriching the social life, socially, economically, politically and culturally.
Further, this dissertation aims to engage with critical discourse analysis of national (official) identity and an individual (religious) identity of Pakistan Christians and other minority groups. In the process, it seeks to explain the rise of Islamism in Pakistan during the past few decades its impact on the rising tide of sectarianism in Pakistan leading to the identity-based persecution of religious minorities. Islamists have a limited presence in majority politics and decision-making. However, they are dominant when it comes to the matter of religion and religious and national identity, for instance, Islamists have complete control over the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII).
