Women embracing Islam [[electronic resource] ] : gender and conversion in the West / / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
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| Titolo: |
Women embracing Islam [[electronic resource] ] : gender and conversion in the West / / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
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| Pubblicazione: | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 297.082/091821 |
| Soggetto topico: | Muslim converts from Christianity - Europe |
| Muslim women - Europe | |
| Women in Islam - Europe | |
| Gender identity - Europe | |
| Sex role - Religious aspects - Islam | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
NieuwkerkKarin van <1960->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women embracing Islam |
| ISBN: | 0-292-79577-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452207603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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