Buch
Sammelband
Women embracing Islam : gender and conversion in the West
Herausgegeben von:
Nieuwkerk, Karin van
Austin, Tex.:
Univ. of Texas Press
,
2006
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294 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Nieuwkerk, Karin van |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Islamic studies - women's studies
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Jahr: | 2006 |
| ISBN: | 0292712731 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Many Westerners view Islam as a religion that restricts and subordinates women in both private and public life. Yet a surprising number of women in Western Europe and America are converting to Islam. What attracts these women to a belief system that is markedly different from both Western Christianity and Western secularism? What benefits do they gain by converting, and what are the costs? How do Western women converts live their new Islamic faith, and how does their conversion affect their families and communities? How do women converts transmit Islamic values to their children? These are some of the questions that Women Embracing Islam seeks to answer. In this vanguard study of gender and conversion to Islam, leading historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and theologians investigate why non-Muslim women in the United States, several European countries, and South Africa are converting to Islam. Drawing on extensive interviews with female converts, the authors explore the life experiences that lead Western women to adopt Islam, as well as the appeal that various forms of Islam, as well as the Nation of Islam, have for women. The authors find that while no single set of factors can explain why Western women are embracing Islamic faith traditions, some common motivations emerge. These include an attraction to Islam's high regard for family and community, its strict moral and ethical standards, and the rationality and spirituality of its theology, as well as a disillusionment with Christianity and with the unrestrained sexuality of so much of Western culture. Willy Jansen: Forward. Concersion and gender, Two Contested Concepts (S. ix); Karin van Nieuwkerk: Introduction. Gender and Conversion to Islam in the West (S. I); I. Contextualizing Conversion: The Quest for Peace in Submission: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad: Reflections on the Journey of American Women Converts to Islam (S. 19); Anne Sofie Roald: The Shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": Converts and Gender Equal Opportunity (S. 48); Monika Wohlrab-Sahr: Symbolizing Distance: Conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States (S. 71); II. Discourses and Narratives: Karin van Nieuwkerk: Gender, Conversion, and Islam: A Comparison of Online and Offline Conversion Narratives (S. 95); Stefano Allievi: The Shifting Significance of the Halal/Haram Frontier: Narratives on the Hijab and Other Issues (S. 120); III. Trajectories and Paradigms: Haifaa Jawad: Female Conversion to Islam: The Sufi Paradigm (S. 153); Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons: African American Islam as an Expression of Converts' Religious Faith and Nationalist Dreams and Ambitions (S. 172); Margot Badran: Feminism and Conversion: Comparing British, Dutch, and South African Life Stories (S. 192); IV. Transmission and Identity: Nicole Bourque: How Deborah Became Aisha: The Conversion Process and the Creation of Female Muslim Identity(S. 233); Marcia Hermansen: Keeping the Faith: Convert Muslim Mothers and the Transmission of Female Muslim Identity in the West (S. 250) | |
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