Search for dissertations about: "Muslim identity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words Muslim identity.
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1. Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam
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
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2. Women in a borderland : managing Muslim identity where Morocco meets Spain
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3. The Antisemitic Origins of Islamist Violence : A Study of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic State
Abstract : The rise of the Islamic State, and its antisemitic ideology, has led to violence against Jews in Europe and a genocide of Shia Muslims in Iraq. This thesis investigates the causes and origins of Islamist antisemitic violence from a social identity perspective. READ MORE
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4. Placing Conflict : Religion and politics in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Abstract : Decentralisation and federalism are often said to mitigate conflict by better meeting the preferences of a heterogeneous population and demands for limited autonomy. But it is argued in this thesis that this perspective does not sufficiently address the ways in which conflict-ridden relations entangle processes across different scales ‒ local, regional as well as national. READ MORE
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5. Multiple meanings of female initiation. "Circumcision" among Jola Women in Lower Casamance, Senegal
Abstract : This anthropological study examines the meanings and practices of female "circumcision" and initiation in relation to identity and social change in contemporary Muslim Jola society, Senegal, West Africa. During the 20th century, clitoridectomy spread - allegedly as part of Islam - and became essential for a Jola woman's identity as a "real" woman and mother, and an important aspect of the women's initiation ritual. READ MORE