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Autore: | Mansson McGinty Anna |
Titolo: | Becoming Muslim [[electronic resource] ] : Western women's conversions to Islam / / Anna Mansson-McGinty |
Pubblicazione: | Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2006. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina: | 297.574082091821 |
Soggetto topico: | Muslim converts from Christianity - Europe |
Muslim women - Europe - Social conditions | |
Women in Islam - Europe | |
Sex role - Religious aspects - Islam | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Individual Conversion; Chapter One: Conversion and Identity Formation; Chapter Two: A Step toward the Unknown; Chapter Three: The Conversion Narrative; Part II: Personal Worlds; Chapter Four: Personal Models of Spirituality and Social Conscience; Chapter Five: Personal Models of Gender; Chapter Six: The Veil and Alternative Femininities; Part III: Encounters; Chapter Seven: Looping Effects of Meaning; Chapter Eight: Family, Work, Sisterhood; Chapter Nine: Personal Versions of Islam; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M |
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Sommario/riassunto: | While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Becoming Muslim |
ISBN: | 1-281-36694-3 |
9786611366940 | |
0-312-37621-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451182803321 |
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