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Becoming Muslim

Part of the Culture, Mind, and Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780312376215

ISBN: 978-0-230-61668-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 8, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Conversion and Identity Formation

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 3 –26

[Mariam from the United States and Marianne from Sweden express disappointment and frustration about being misjudged and misunderstood as Western female converts1 to Islam. They feel a distressing gap between their own self-image and the negative stereotypes many Americans and Swedes have of...
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A Step toward the Unknown

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 27 –32

[Below I give the reader a brief biographical presentation of the women, presented in the same order as listed above. Their life stories will be discussed more thoroughly in part II, “Personal Worlds.” There are obviously many different factors behind a conversion, conscious as well as...
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The Conversion Narrative

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 33 –52

[Conversion is often viewed as a sudden and fundamental shift in worldview, which changes the individual in considerable ways. William James wrote in 1906 that to be converted signifies the change “by which a self hitherto divided, and consciously wrong, inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and...
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Personal Models of Spirituality and Social Conscience

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 55 –84

[In this chapter I analyze the women’s identity formation and the process of cognitive reconciliation, so prominent in the case of conversion when a new religious system is internalized and incorporated into a preexisting cognitive framework. I focus on the inner organization of a Muslim identity...
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Personal Models of Gender

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 85 –109

[In previous chapter I discussed how some of the converts’ identity formation and conversion is organized and understood through personal models of spirituality and social conscience. In this chapter I continue to analyze the different models of gender that constitute dominant themes through...
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The Veil and Alternative Femininities

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 111 –124

[The symbolism and meaning of the veil comprise all the themes discussed in previous chapters through the different personal models, touching upon spiritual, political, and gender issues. The veil1 is a widely disputed and charged symbol with diverse political, social, cultural, and personal...
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Looping Effects of Meaning

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 127 –151

[The women are frequently objects of offensive and insolent verbal harassment and looks. The modest Islamic clothing seems to be the main reason for these insults and reactions. In encounters with strangers this is the only visible thing that communicates their Muslim identity. With the veil and...
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Family, Work, Sisterhood

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 153 –178

[In this chapter I resume the discussion about the women’s various experiences of relationships and how they negotiate their Muslim identity externally and the impact it has on their self-understanding. I begin with a discussion about some of the strategies used by the women to offset widespread...
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Personal Versions of Islam

McGinty, Anna Mansson

Pages: 179 –185

[The “becoming” in the title of the book, points to a crucial theme in the study—that of process. Becoming points to a happening, something turning into something. The conversion, the process of becoming Muslim, is neither final nor predictable. When the self is becoming there are no sudden...

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