Women Embracing Islam Gender and Conversion in the West

Name: Women Embracing Islam Gender and Conversion in the West
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ISBN: 9780292713024

ISBN-10: 0292713029

ISBN-13: 9780292713024

Edition: 2006

Authors: Karin van Nieuwkerk

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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…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword. Conversion and Gender, Two Contested Concepts



Introduction. Gender and Conversion to Islam in the West




Contextualizing Conversion



The Quest for Peace in Submission: Reflections on the Journey of American Women Converts to Islam




The Shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": Converts and Gender Equal Opportunity




Symbolizing Distance: Conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States




Discourses and Narratives



Gender, Conversion, and Islam: A Comparison of Online and Offline Conversion Narratives




The Shifting Significance of the Halal/Haram Frontier: Narratives on the Hijab and Other Issues




Trajectories and Paradigms



Female Conversion to Islam: The Sufi Paradigm




African American Islam as an Expression of Converts' Religious Faith and Nationalist Dreams and Ambitions




Feminism and Conversion: Comparing British, Dutch, and South African Life Stories




Transmission and Identity



How Deborah Became Aisha: The Conversion Process and the Creation of Female Muslim Identity




Keeping the Faith: Convert Muslim Mothers and the Transmission of Female Muslim Identity in the West



Notes on Contributors


Index