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Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam / Carolyn Moxley Rouse

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004

Online-Ressource (xvii, 271 p)

Englisch

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Engaged Surrender; 2. A Community of Women: Consensus, Borders, and Resistance Praxis; 3. Gender Negotiations and Qur'anic Exegesis: One Community's Reading of Islam and Women; 4. Historical Discourses; 5. Soul Food: Changing Markers of Identity through the Transition; 6. Conversion; 7. Performing Gender: Marriage, Family, and Community; 8. Searching for Islamic Purity In and Out of Secular Los Angeles County; 9. Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; K; J; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E

FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Engaged Surrender : African American Women and Islam

Rezensiert in: Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam, by Carolyn Moxley Rouse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 271pp.; 50.00 USD (cloth), 19.95 USD (paper) / Kamel Ghozzi, 2005

0-520-23794-3 ; 0-520-23795-1

978-0-520-23795-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

BP173.4

305.48/6971073     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: African American women -- Religion ; Women in Islam ; Muslim women -- Social conditions ; Muslim women -- United States -- Social conditions

African American women ; Religion ; Muslim women ; Social conditions ; Muslim women ; United States ; Social conditions ; Women in Islam ; Electronic books

Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in pa