Muslimska kvinnor i Israel : religionens roll i vardagslivets förflyttningar
Författare
Summary, in English
Empirically, this thesis presents a case study founded on interviews with several women. This material is complemented by statistics about Muslim women from various sources. Theoretically, the present thesis is inspired by the ideas of Alain Tourraine on individuals everyday life transitions. At the time of the interviews the women were between 19–26 years old. They all studied at universities in Israel, they all identified themself as religious and were all members of The Islamic Movement in Israel.
In the interviews the women express how they understand their choice of religious identification and what religion means to them in everyday life. One chapter is devoted to a historical and statistical overview of Muslims in Israel that ends with specific data about Muslim women in Israel. The interviews are presented in five chapters. The first chapter, “Ummah”, presents how the interviewed women relate to other Muslims in the world. The second chapter discusses the “Prayer”; what prayer means to the women and why they pray. Another chapter examines how they discuss their clothing. A separate chapter is devoted to the women’s attitudes towards modernity. In the fifth chapter the women’s relationship to various interpretations of the Koran is discussed.
In sum, this study of religious Muslim women in Israel advocates that it is significant to focus on everyday life transitions to understand why people chose religion in the construction of personal identities. Consequently, in an increasing global society humans are moving between surroundings that have overlapping, different and some times contradicting expectations on individuals.
Hence, this thesis suggests that one way individuals negotiate and facilitate transitions in everyday life is through religious identification.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Svenska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lund Studies in History of Religions
Volym
30
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Lunds universitet
Ämne
- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Nyckelord
- Islam
- Israel
- Muslim Women
- Arabs in Israel
- Palestinians in Israel
- Arab Women in Israel
- religious identity.
Status
Published
Handledare
- Jonas Otterbeck
- Leif Stenberg
- Elie Wardini
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1103-4882
- ISBN: 978-91-7473-231-3
Försvarsdatum
28 mars 2012
Försvarstid
15:00
Försvarsplats
Sal 118, Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Allhelgona kyrkogata 8, Lund
Opponent
- Susanne Olsson (docent)