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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452207603321

Titolo

Women embracing Islam [[electronic resource] ] : gender and conversion in the West / / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2006

ISBN

0-292-79577-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NieuwkerkKarin van <1960->

Disciplina

297.082/091821

Soggetti

Muslim converts from Christianity - Europe

Muslim women - Europe

Women in Islam - Europe

Gender identity - Europe

Sex role - Religious aspects - Islam

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole



Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.