An edition of Women embracing Islam (2006)

Women embracing Islam

gender and conversion in the West

1st ed.
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Women embracing Islam

gender and conversion in the West

1st ed.

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Women embracing Islam: gender and conversion in the West
2006, University of Texas Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
297.082/091821
Library of Congress
BP170.5 .W66 2006

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p. cm.

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Open Library
OL3420168M
Internet Archive
womenembracingis00nieu
ISBN 10
0292712731, 0292713029
ISBN 13
9780292712737, 9780292713024
LCCN
2005037096
Library Thing
1520891
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4777283
678813

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