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050 0 0 _aBP170.5
_bW872 2006
245 0 0 _aWomen embracing Islam :
_bgender and conversion in the West /
_cedited by Karin van Nieuwkerk.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c2006.
300 _a294 p. :
_bill.
505 0 _aConversion 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.
505 0 _aHKBU library
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650 0 _aMuslim converts from Christianity
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650 0 _aMuslim women
_zEurope.
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650 0 _aWomen in Islam
_zEurope.
_9222155
650 0 _aGender identity
_zEurope.
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650 0 _aSex role
_xReligious aspects
_xIslam.
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700 1 _aNieuwkerk, Karin van,
_d1960-
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900 _a= C.1 SDU
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