Gender and Islam - Presentation

Conversion

Main articles for the presentation

  • Khalil, Mohammad Hassan and Mucahit Bilici: Conversion Out of Islam. A Study of Conversion Narratives of Former Muslims. In: The Muslim World 97 (1), 2007. pp. 111 - 124.
  • Luckmann, Thomas: The Religious Situation in Europe. The Background to Contemporary Conversions. In: Social Compass 46 (3), 1999. pp. 251–258.
  • Rambo, Lewis R.: Theories of Conversion: Understanding and Interpreting Religious Change. In: Social Compass 46 (3), 1999. pp. 259 – 271.
  • Savage, Timothy M.: Europe and Islam: Crescent Waxing, Cultures Clashing. In: The Washington Quarterly 27 (3), 2004. pp. 25 - 50.
  • Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika: Conversion to Islam: Between Syncretism and Symbolic Battle. In: Social Compass 46 (3), 1999. pp. 351 – 362.

Possibilities

Literature I have already

To Islam

  • Curtis: African-American Islamization Reconsidered.
  • Herman: Roads to Mecca, Conversion Narratives.
  • Jensen, Tina Gudrun: To Be 'Danish', Becoming 'Muslim': Contestations of National Identity?
  • Kew: Why Nigeria Matters.
  • Köse: The Journey from the secular to the sacred. Experiences of native British converts to Islam.
  • Luckmann: The religious situation in Europe, the background to contemporary conversions.
  • Maxwell: Afanasii Nikitin, An Orthodox Russian's Spiritual Voyage in the Dar al-Islam.
  • Mansson McGinty, Anna: Formation of alternative femininities through Islam: Feminist approaches among Muslim converts in Sweden. here
  • Rambo: Theories of Conversion.
  • Spalek, El-Hassan: Muslim Converts in Prison.
  • van Nieuwkerk, Karin: Gender and Conversion to Islam. ISIM Review 12.
  • Wohlrab-Sahr: Conversion to Islam, Between Syncretism and symbolic battle.

Away from Islam

  • Akcapar: Conversion as a Migration Strategy in a Transit Country
  • Khalil, Bilici: Conversion out of Islam.
  • Krikorian: A people divided.
  • Pelkmans: Culture as a tool and an obstacle, missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
  • Woodberry, Shubin, Marks: Why Muslims Follow Jesus.

Other...

Articles

  • Botoiarova: Islamic fundamentalism in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
  • Communist and Post-Communist Studies (Editorial): Conflicts in Central Asia.
  • Gardaz: The rise and fall of political Islam in Central Asia.
  • Hanks: Dynamics of Islam, identity and institutional rule in Uzbekistan.
  • Shlapentokh: Islam and Orthodox Russia.
  • Savage: Europe and Islam, Crescent Waxing, Cultures Clashing.

Internet sources

Literature I could look at

Articles

  • Allievi, Stefano: The Shifting Significance of the Haram/Halal Frontier: Narratives (on Hijab and Other Issues) of Male and Female Converts Compared.
  • Badran, Margot: Conversion and Feminism. Comparative Life Stories: South Africa, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
  • Bourque, Nicole: How Deborah became Aisha: The Conversion Process and the Creation of Female Muslim Identity in Scotland.
  • Haddad, Yvonne: The Quest for Peace in Submission: White Women Converts’ Journey to Islam.
  • Hermansen, Marcia: Keeping the Faith: Convert Muslim Mothers and the Transmission of Female Muslim Identity in the West.
  • Jawad, Haifaa: Female Conversion to Islam: the Sufi Paradigm.
  • Roald, Anne Sofie: Towards a Scandinavian Islam? A Study on Scandinavian Converts.
  • Simmons, Gwendolyn Zoharah: African-American Islam as an Expression of Religious Faith and Black Nationalist Dreams and Hopes.
  • van Nieuwkerk, Karin: Gender and Conversion to Islam: A Comparison of On-line and Off-line Conversion Narratives.

Books

  • Mansson-McGinty, Anna: Becoming Muslim: Western women's conversions to Islam. New York, NY [etc.]: Palgrave Macmillan 2006.
  • van Nieuwkerk, Karin: Women embracing Islam. Gender and conversion in the West. Austin: University of Texas Press 2006.