Women embracing Islam
Subtitle: gender and conversion in the West
By: edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk.
Contributors: Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292712737; 9780292713024
Subjects: Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe; Muslim women -- Europe; Women in Islam -- Europe; Gender identity -- Europe; Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy jansen; title: Gender and conversion to Islam in the West  / Karin van Nieuwkerk; title: Contextualizing conversion; title: The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam; title: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad; title: The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald; title: Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr; title: Discourses and narratives; title: Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk; title: The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi; title: Trajectories and paradigms; title: Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad; title: African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons; title: Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories; title: Margot Badran; title: Transmission and identity; title: How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque; title: Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.