Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /
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Language: | English |
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University of Texas Press,
2006.
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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.