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The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin: An Ethnographic Study: 14
Author(s): Synnøve Bendixsen (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 17 April 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 342 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004221166
- ISBN-13: 9789004221161
Book Description
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youths 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.
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Review
“At last, a richly-textured, ethnographic study which takes religiosity seriously. This fine study of young women’s involvement in a particular, Islamic movement in Berlin illuminates the reasons for ‘the turn to Islam’ of a new generation in Europe. […] Marked throughout by methodological and analytical sophistication, it challenges many easy generalisations about how Muslims born and educated in Europe appropriate Islam.” Philip Lewis, University of Bradford.
About the Author
Synnøve K.N. Bendixsen, PhD. (2010) is a postdoctoral researcher at IMER Uni Rokkansenteret, Norway. She received a PhD in Social Anthropology from Humboldt University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Bendixsen’s research interests include Muslim minority communities, youth, refugees, irregular migrants, and urban communities.
