The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin: An Ethnographic StudyThe Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their everyday life engagement with Islam. It deals with the reconstruction of selfhood and the collective content of identity formation in an urban and transnational setting. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Situating the Field and Methodological Reflections | 31 |
The Religious Spaces of Young Muslim Women in Berlin | 66 |
3 Negotiating Resisting and ReConstructing Othering | 108 |
4 Crafting the Religious Individual in a Faith Community | 147 |
Bargaining with Religious Norms and Ideals | 183 |
6 Making a Religious Gender Order | 216 |
7 The Meanings of and Incentives for a Religious Identification | 249 |
Conclusion | 281 |
Situating the Movements Studied within the Wider Islamic Field in Germany | 295 |
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