02231cam a22002774a 4500 051221s2006 txua b s001 0deng 0292713029 9780292713024 SDU BP170.5 W872 2006 Women embracing Islam : gender and conversion in the West / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006. 294 p. : ill. 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. HKBU library YT2025 M09 Muslim converts from Christianity Europe. 222153 Muslim women Europe. 222154 Women in Islam Europe. 222155 Gender identity Europe. 183409 Sex role Religious aspects Islam. 222156 Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960- 222157 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 113424 113424 0 0 lcc 0 BP01705 W872 02006 0 CGB 283314 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-29 2 0 BP170.5 W872 2006 1000386530 2025-09-29 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-29 GBE