Marjo Buitelaar
Biographic Data
| ID | 186889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjo Buitelaar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjo |
| FAMILY NAME | Buitelaar |
| SIGNATURE | BUITELAAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Religious Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1751-2080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Religion as Relation: Studying Religion in Context
Religion is studied from a multitude of approaches and methodologies: history, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, psychology and the academic study of religion. This volume differs from most other introductions and handbooks in that it draws on ongoing research to show “how” researchers approach their topics. Its aim is to provide orientation in this multidisciplinary context without attempting to homogenize the field. The introduction provides…
Social Media Representations of the Pilgrimage to Mecca: Challenging Moroccan and Dutch Mainstream Media Frames
In this article, we compare representations of the pilgrimage to Mecca posted on Facebook and Youtube by ‘ordinary’ pilgrims from Morocco and (semi)professional bloggers of Moroccan parentage in the Netherlands. We discuss how such posts challenge representations that circulate in the mainstream media in both countries about Islam in general and the hajj in particular. For Morocco we demonstrate that this kind of digital mediation of pilgrimage c…
Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility
"This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women's mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women's lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experie…
Stepping in the footsteps of Hajar to bring home the hajj
This paper discusses the hajj memoir Standing Alone (2006) by the journalist Asra Nomani to demonstrate how before, during and after her hajj performance, the author moves back and forth between various moral discourses that inform her daily life in order to make sense of her multiple senses of belonging and to claim more space for women participation and in today’s global and local Umma (community of Muslims). Using ‘Dialogical Self theory’ (DST…
Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility
This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experien…
Rearticulating the Conventions of Hajj Storytelling: Second Generation Moroccan-Dutch Female Pilgrims' Multi-Voiced Narratives about the Pilgrimage to Mecca
This article explores the interplay between content, narrator, and lifeworld in narrative constructions concerning the meanings of pilgrimage to Mecca by studying the hajj stories of second-generation Moroccan-Dutch women. By adopting a 'dialogical approach' to self-storytelling, it is asked how the pilgrimage experiences of these women and the meanings they attribute to them are shaped by different intersecting discursive traditions that inform …
The Daily Lives of Muslims By Nilüfer Göle, translated by Jacqueline Lerescu
In June/Ramadan 2018, the Dutch branch of Pegida, short for ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West’, announced a pork BBQ in front of a mosque in Rotterdam. In a peaceful protest against the BBQ, the fence surrounding the mosque square was decorated with thousands of flowers by members of the mostly non-Muslim group ‘010 for peace’ (010 is the dialling code for the city of Rotterdam). The planned Pegida BBQ attracted much media…
La gargoulette de Bouchra: Le Maroc dans un nouveau quartier urbain des Pays-Bas
Plusieurs femmes parmi celles qui ont collaboré à mon projet « Récits d’une vie » m’ont invitée chez elles pour une ou plusieurs interviews. L’une d’entre elles est Bouchra El-Morabet. Elle habite une maison splendide dans un nouveau quartier urbain de standing où la plupart des familles sont d’origine néerlandaise. Bouchra et son mari ont choisi de vivre dans ce quartier parce qu’ils ont eu tous deux, d’emblée, l’impression qu’ils s’y sentiraien…
Hajj. Global Interactions through Pilgrimage: Global Interactions Through Pilgrimage
The Hajj and the Anthropological Study of Pilgrimage Marjo Buitelaar Sacrifice, Purification and Gender in the Hajj: Personhood, Metonymy, and Ritual Transformation Pnina Werbner Pilgrimage, Performativity, and British Muslims: Scripted and Unscripted Accounts of the Hajj and Umra Sean McLoughlin The Hajj and Politics in Contemporary Turkey and Indonesia Robert R. Bianchi Islamic Reformism and Pilgrimage: The Hajj of Rashid Rida in 1916 Richard v…
Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling
This chapter argues that the study of religious identity construction from a biographical perspective by using the analytical concept of the 'dialogical self' allows one to investigate both the intrinsic value of religiosity to Muslims and its contextualized meanings in terms of identity politics. According to dialogical self theory, self-conceptions are produced by a dynamic interplay of so-called 'I-positions' and 'voices of the self'. By refle…
Constructing a Muslim Self in a Post-Migration Context: Continuity and Discontinuity with Parental Voices
Discovering a different me: Discursive positioning in life story telling over time
Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition
In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore t…
Why the French don't like headscarves: Islam, the state, and public space by Bowen, John R
Staying close by moving out. The contextual meanings of personal autonomy in the life stories of women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands
This article focuses on the themes of personal autonomy and communion in the life stories of highly educated women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands. It is argued that the task to make the most of what The Netherlands have to offer whilst staying loyal to parents who have paved the road, creates a double bind which is the motor behind the development of the ‘plot’ of all collected life stories. While the interviewees tend to interpret the di…
I Am the Ultimate Challenge: Accounts of Intersectionality in the Life-Story of a Well-Known Daughter of Moroccan Migrant Workers in the Netherlands
This article aims to demonstrate that the concept of the ‘dialogical self’ is an identity theory that provides useful tools for studying intersectionality. In terms of the dialogical self, the formation of identity is a process of orchestrating voices within the self that speak from different I-positions. Such voices are embedded in field-specific repertoires of practices, characters, discourses and power relations specific to the various groups …
The challenges of incorporating Muslim women's views into development policy: Analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen
This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we argue that the project did not meet expectations or project goals because it failed to go …
Participeren in een Marokkaans huishouden
Tussen 1983 en 1984 deed ik leeronderzoek naar de betekenis van de hammâm, het Moorse bad, voor vrouwen in Sidi Slimane, een klein provinciestadje in de Marokkaanse Gharb-vlakte. Ik was daar terechtgekomen via de Marokkaanse echtgenoot van een achternicht van me. Hij had geregeld dat ik de eerste weken bij de familie van zijn broer zou doorbrengen. Het klikte goed tussen mijn gastfamilie en mij, en bovendien woonden zij op nog geen vijfhonderd me…
Identity Strategies Among Adolescent Girls of Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands
Sometimes it is assumed that Moroccan girls in the Netherlands have a problematic adolescence: They are supposed to be caught between two cultures. Adolescence can be seen as the stage of life in which individuals should develop their own identity by exploring different alternatives. Moroccan girls, however, may not have these possibilities for exploration during adolescence; they seem to be restricted in many ways. This article first looks at th…
Negotiating the rules of chaste behaviour: Re-interpretations of the symbolic complex of virginity by young women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands
This article investigates what narrations on the symbolic complex of virginity in the life-stories of second-generation women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands can tell us about the ways these women construct, maintain and combine their various social identifications. It is demonstrated that these biographical narratives contain numerous episodes in which the women improvise upon and shift the meanings of Moroccan core-values like virginity …
Fasting and Feasting in Morocco: Women's Participation in Ramadan
I Am the Ultimate Challenge: Accounts of Intersectionality in the Life-Story of a Well-Known Daughter of Moroccan Migrant Workers in the Netherlands
This article aims to demonstrate that the concept of the ‘dialogical self’ is an identity theory that provides useful tools for studying intersectionality. In terms of the dialogical self, the formation of identity is a process of orchestrating voices within the self that speak from different I-positions. Such voices are embedded in field-specific repertoires of practices, characters, discourses and power relations specific to the various groups …
Negotiating the rules of chaste behaviour: Re-interpretations of the symbolic complex of virginity by young women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands
This article investigates what narrations on the symbolic complex of virginity in the life-stories of second-generation women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands can tell us about the ways these women construct, maintain and combine their various social identifications. It is demonstrated that these biographical narratives contain numerous episodes in which the women improvise upon and shift the meanings of Moroccan core-values like virginity …
Identity Strategies Among Adolescent Girls of Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands
Sometimes it is assumed that Moroccan girls in the Netherlands have a problematic adolescence: They are supposed to be caught between two cultures. Adolescence can be seen as the stage of life in which individuals should develop their own identity by exploring different alternatives. Moroccan girls, however, may not have these possibilities for exploration during adolescence; they seem to be restricted in many ways. This article first looks at th…
Discovering a different me: Discursive positioning in life story telling over time
Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition
In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore t…
Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility
This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experien…
The challenges of incorporating Muslim women's views into development policy: Analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen
This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we argue that the project did not meet expectations or project goals because it failed to go …
Rearticulating the Conventions of Hajj Storytelling: Second Generation Moroccan-Dutch Female Pilgrims' Multi-Voiced Narratives about the Pilgrimage to Mecca
This article explores the interplay between content, narrator, and lifeworld in narrative constructions concerning the meanings of pilgrimage to Mecca by studying the hajj stories of second-generation Moroccan-Dutch women. By adopting a 'dialogical approach' to self-storytelling, it is asked how the pilgrimage experiences of these women and the meanings they attribute to them are shaped by different intersecting discursive traditions that inform …
Staying close by moving out. The contextual meanings of personal autonomy in the life stories of women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands
This article focuses on the themes of personal autonomy and communion in the life stories of highly educated women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands. It is argued that the task to make the most of what The Netherlands have to offer whilst staying loyal to parents who have paved the road, creates a double bind which is the motor behind the development of the ‘plot’ of all collected life stories. While the interviewees tend to interpret the di…
Fasting and Feasting in Morocco: Women's Participation in Ramadan
Why the French don't like headscarves: Islam, the state, and public space by Bowen, John R
Fasting and Feasting in Morocco: Women's Participation in Ramadan
Negotiating the rules of chaste behaviour: Re-interpretations of the symbolic complex of virginity by young women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands
This article investigates what narrations on the symbolic complex of virginity in the life-stories of second-generation women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands can tell us about the ways these women construct, maintain and combine their various social identifications. It is demonstrated that these biographical narratives contain numerous episodes in which the women improvise upon and shift the meanings of Moroccan core-values like virginity …
Identity Strategies Among Adolescent Girls of Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands
Sometimes it is assumed that Moroccan girls in the Netherlands have a problematic adolescence: They are supposed to be caught between two cultures. Adolescence can be seen as the stage of life in which individuals should develop their own identity by exploring different alternatives. Moroccan girls, however, may not have these possibilities for exploration during adolescence; they seem to be restricted in many ways. This article first looks at th…
Participeren in een Marokkaans huishouden
Tussen 1983 en 1984 deed ik leeronderzoek naar de betekenis van de hammâm, het Moorse bad, voor vrouwen in Sidi Slimane, een klein provinciestadje in de Marokkaanse Gharb-vlakte. Ik was daar terechtgekomen via de Marokkaanse echtgenoot van een achternicht van me. Hij had geregeld dat ik de eerste weken bij de familie van zijn broer zou doorbrengen. Het klikte goed tussen mijn gastfamilie en mij, en bovendien woonden zij op nog geen vijfhonderd me…
I Am the Ultimate Challenge: Accounts of Intersectionality in the Life-Story of a Well-Known Daughter of Moroccan Migrant Workers in the Netherlands
This article aims to demonstrate that the concept of the ‘dialogical self’ is an identity theory that provides useful tools for studying intersectionality. In terms of the dialogical self, the formation of identity is a process of orchestrating voices within the self that speak from different I-positions. Such voices are embedded in field-specific repertoires of practices, characters, discourses and power relations specific to the various groups …
The challenges of incorporating Muslim women's views into development policy: Analysis of a Dutch action research project in Yemen
This article discusses the Muslim Women and Development Action Research Project (MWDAR), an attempt by the Dutch government to introduce new discourses on Islam and the empowerment of women into their development policy. Based on a discussion of the project in Yemen, an analysis of its evaluation reports, and follow-up research with project participants, we argue that the project did not meet expectations or project goals because it failed to go …
Staying close by moving out. The contextual meanings of personal autonomy in the life stories of women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands
This article focuses on the themes of personal autonomy and communion in the life stories of highly educated women of Moroccan descent in The Netherlands. It is argued that the task to make the most of what The Netherlands have to offer whilst staying loyal to parents who have paved the road, creates a double bind which is the motor behind the development of the ‘plot’ of all collected life stories. While the interviewees tend to interpret the di…
Why the French don't like headscarves: Islam, the state, and public space by Bowen, John R
Constructing a Muslim Self in a Post-Migration Context: Continuity and Discontinuity with Parental Voices
Discovering a different me: Discursive positioning in life story telling over time
Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition
In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore t…
Dialogical Constructions of a Muslim Self through Life Story Telling
This chapter argues that the study of religious identity construction from a biographical perspective by using the analytical concept of the 'dialogical self' allows one to investigate both the intrinsic value of religiosity to Muslims and its contextualized meanings in terms of identity politics. According to dialogical self theory, self-conceptions are produced by a dynamic interplay of so-called 'I-positions' and 'voices of the self'. By refle…
La gargoulette de Bouchra: Le Maroc dans un nouveau quartier urbain des Pays-Bas
Plusieurs femmes parmi celles qui ont collaboré à mon projet « Récits d’une vie » m’ont invitée chez elles pour une ou plusieurs interviews. L’une d’entre elles est Bouchra El-Morabet. Elle habite une maison splendide dans un nouveau quartier urbain de standing où la plupart des familles sont d’origine néerlandaise. Bouchra et son mari ont choisi de vivre dans ce quartier parce qu’ils ont eu tous deux, d’emblée, l’impression qu’ils s’y sentiraien…
Hajj. Global Interactions through Pilgrimage: Global Interactions Through Pilgrimage
The Hajj and the Anthropological Study of Pilgrimage Marjo Buitelaar Sacrifice, Purification and Gender in the Hajj: Personhood, Metonymy, and Ritual Transformation Pnina Werbner Pilgrimage, Performativity, and British Muslims: Scripted and Unscripted Accounts of the Hajj and Umra Sean McLoughlin The Hajj and Politics in Contemporary Turkey and Indonesia Robert R. Bianchi Islamic Reformism and Pilgrimage: The Hajj of Rashid Rida in 1916 Richard v…
The Daily Lives of Muslims By Nilüfer Göle, translated by Jacqueline Lerescu
In June/Ramadan 2018, the Dutch branch of Pegida, short for ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West’, announced a pork BBQ in front of a mosque in Rotterdam. In a peaceful protest against the BBQ, the fence surrounding the mosque square was decorated with thousands of flowers by members of the mostly non-Muslim group ‘010 for peace’ (010 is the dialling code for the city of Rotterdam). The planned Pegida BBQ attracted much media…
Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility
"This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women's mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women's lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experie…
Stepping in the footsteps of Hajar to bring home the hajj
This paper discusses the hajj memoir Standing Alone (2006) by the journalist Asra Nomani to demonstrate how before, during and after her hajj performance, the author moves back and forth between various moral discourses that inform her daily life in order to make sense of her multiple senses of belonging and to claim more space for women participation and in today’s global and local Umma (community of Muslims). Using ‘Dialogical Self theory’ (DST…
Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility
This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experien…
Rearticulating the Conventions of Hajj Storytelling: Second Generation Moroccan-Dutch Female Pilgrims' Multi-Voiced Narratives about the Pilgrimage to Mecca
This article explores the interplay between content, narrator, and lifeworld in narrative constructions concerning the meanings of pilgrimage to Mecca by studying the hajj stories of second-generation Moroccan-Dutch women. By adopting a 'dialogical approach' to self-storytelling, it is asked how the pilgrimage experiences of these women and the meanings they attribute to them are shaped by different intersecting discursive traditions that inform …
Religion as Relation: Studying Religion in Context
Religion is studied from a multitude of approaches and methodologies: history, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, psychology and the academic study of religion. This volume differs from most other introductions and handbooks in that it draws on ongoing research to show “how” researchers approach their topics. Its aim is to provide orientation in this multidisciplinary context without attempting to homogenize the field. The introduction provides…
Social Media Representations of the Pilgrimage to Mecca: Challenging Moroccan and Dutch Mainstream Media Frames
In this article, we compare representations of the pilgrimage to Mecca posted on Facebook and Youtube by ‘ordinary’ pilgrims from Morocco and (semi)professional bloggers of Moroccan parentage in the Netherlands. We discuss how such posts challenge representations that circulate in the mainstream media in both countries about Islam in general and the hajj in particular. For Morocco we demonstrate that this kind of digital mediation of pilgrimage c…
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