Women embracing Islam : gender and conversion in the West / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk.
2006
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Title
Women embracing Islam : gender and conversion in the West / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk.
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Edition
1st ed.
Imprint
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Description
xii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
ISBN
0292712731 cloth alkaline paper
0292713029 paperback alkaline paper
9780292712737 cloth alkaline paper
9780292713024 paperback alkaline paper
0292713029 paperback alkaline paper
9780292712737 cloth alkaline paper
9780292713024 paperback alkaline paper
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