.

0 (hodnocen0 x )

EB

ONLINE

1st ed.

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006

1 online resource (xii, 294 p.) : ill

ISBN 0292712731 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0292713029 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780292712737 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780292713024 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

001837648

full

(Au-PeEL)EBL3443314

(CaPaEBR)ebr10245802

(MiAaPQ)EBC3443314

(OCoLC)614535522

GBA655531