| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 294 pages : portraits ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe.
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Muslim converts from Christianity. |
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Europe. |
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Muslim women -- Europe.
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Muslim women. |
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Women in Islam -- Europe.
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Women in Islam. |
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Gender identity -- Europe.
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Gender identity. |
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
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Gender identity. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0292713029 paperback alkaline paper |
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0292712731 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780292712737 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780292713024 paperback alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780292712737 |
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9780292713024 |
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