Search for dissertations about: "conversion to Islam"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words conversion to Islam.

2. 1. Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam

   Author : Anna Månsson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; person-centered ethnography; psychological anthropology; Muslims in the U.S.; Muslims in Sweden; Islam in the West; conversion narrative; conversion to Islam; Muslim identity; identity-making; cognitive models; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : "Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam" is an ethnographic study analyzing the identity-making of female Muslim converts. It is based on eighteen in-depth interviews with six women in Sweden and three women in the U.S. READ MORE

4. 2. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity

   Author : Nathan Light; USA IN Indiana University; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Folklore; Song; Islam; Muqam; Modernity; Language; literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Turkic; Canonization; Middle Eastern literature; Uyghur; Performance; China; Asian literature; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. READ MORE