Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West Yet a surprising number of women in Western Europe and America are converting to Islam.In this vanguard study of gender and conversion to Islam, leading historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and theologians investigate why non-Muslim
| TITLE | : | Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West |
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| RATING | : | 4.65 (886 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0292713029 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 308 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2006-08-01 |
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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 and conversion to Islam, leading historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and theologians investigate why non-Muslim women in the United States, several European countries, and South Africa are convertin
EDITORIAL :
About the Author Karin Van Nieuwkerk is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
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