Anne Sofie Roald
Biographic Data
| ID | 218797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Sofie Roald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Sofie |
| FAMILY NAME | Roald |
| SIGNATURE | ROALD A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Malmö University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6171-1509 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Young Muslims’ estrangement from Swedish majority society: Influences from the minority
Resumé
Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change
Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world. This volume examines this topic with interdisciplinary contributions that range across media studies, anthroplogy, religious studies, and political science and explore both new and older media forms
Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence
Review of Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence, by \nGeorgina L. Jardim, Farnham, UK, Ashgate, 2014, 256 pp., £70.00 (hardback), \nISBN 978-1-4724-2637-6
The Nuances of Islam: Empowerment and Agency for Palestinian Women in the West Bank
Denna artikel handlar om hur islamistiska och islam-orienterade kvinnor på Västbanken upplever "islam", i frågar som hur kvinnor socialiserar och i relationer mellan män och kvinnor. Studien bygger på ett intervjumaterial där kvinnor berättar om vad Islam betyder för dem. Detta intervjumaterial analyseras genom begreppen "empowerment" och "agency", särskilt Kockelman's definition av "agency" som "flexibilitet" och "ansvarighet". Intervjuerna gjor…
Media and political contestation in the contemporary Arab world: A Decade of Change
This book addresses the roles of various media in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world. Interdisciplinary contributions examine the sociopolitical dynamics generated in and through media, with perspectives emerging from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, and political science. This book explores both new media and older media forms and formats including the press, satelli…
Benevolent Patriarchy”: Palestinian Women between “Ideal” and “Reality”
In this article polygyny is used to illustrate how the ideal of benevolent patriarchy and the \n“good” Muslim man as the benevolent patriarch tends to create a discrepancy between the \nlegal and the moral in Islamic legislation as well as in Islamic discourse. The study is based \non fieldwork in the West Bank in 2011 when 49 Islamist and Islamic-oriented women were \ninterviewed. The main finding of this study is that Islamist women tend to acc…
Searching for Heaven in the Real World: A Sociological Discussion of Conversion in the Arab World
Searching for heaven in the real world : A sociological discussion of conversion in the Arab world
Majority versus Minority: Governmentality' and Muslims in Sweden
This article deals with the Muslim community in Sweden in view of the majority-minority dynamics with focus on how values, attitudes, behaviors, and practices of the Swedish majority influence Muslim minority communities and how majority society's approach to Muslims and Islam influences both the relationship Muslims have with non-Muslims and the understandings that Muslims have of Islam
Expressing Religiosity in a Secular Society: The Relativisation of Faith in Muslim Communities in Sweden
This article discusses religion in public space and the case study is Muslim minorities in Sweden. The discussion deals with secularisation trends within Muslim communities in Swedish society in view of the notion of counter-secularisation as a fixed and unchanged form of religious expressions in contemporary public life. What happens in Muslim communities as Muslims of various cultural backgrounds and religious orientations meet and interact in …
The conversion process in stages: New Muslims in the twenty-first century
This study deals with stages in the process of conversion to Islam. However, unlike the extensive research on pre-conversion stages, this contribution looks at post-conversion development. The initial stage after conversion brings with it a zealotry in which converts tend to become ‘more royal than the king’. The second stage tends to be a period of disappointment with the new peer group. The third stage is one of acceptance, when converts accept…
Religious Minorities in the Middle East: Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accommodation
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective. Readership: All those interested in the sociology of religion, majority/minority and ethnic relations, nationalism, state and nation-building, the politics of citizenship, human rights, and the Middle East in gener…
Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West
Polygamy on the Air: Reactions to the Egyptian TV Serial Al-hajj Mutwalli
In the Scandinavian countries, most immigrants have satellite dishes or they live in segregated areas where the cable company provides TV channels from the tenants' homelands. The author discusses a TV serial aired on various Arabic-language TV channels during Ramadan 2001. The TV serial deals with polygamy and it stirred emotions in many of the Muslim countries as well as in Arab communities in the Western world. On the basis of an investigation…
Women in Islam: The western experience
Ismail Raji al Faruqi. Islam and Other Faiths
Notions of Umaleu and Ufemaleu Among Contemporary Muslims: With Special Reference to Islamists
Lyssna på männen: Att Leva I en Patriarkalisk Muslimsk Kontext
The aim of this artide is to scrutinize developments in how prominent male Islamisists have visualized women's role in Islam. Mawdudi and Qutb, to begin with, represent a traditional position which has seen women primarily as wives and mothers. Then, in the 1970s, Turabi introduced interpretations which in many ways were revolutionary. Twenty years låter, Badawi argued for Turabi's views as the only correct ones. Snch a development is possible be…
The Scandinavian Conference on Middle East Studies: 24 -27 Rabi al Akhir 1413 / 22-25 October 1992 Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Nordic Association of Middle East Studies, which was establishedin 1989 in Uppsala, Sweden, recently held its second conference.Delegates from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland participated.John O. Voll (who has with Swedish ancestors), chairman of the MiddleEast Studies Association (MESA), came as guest lecturer.The conference's leitmotif was "Diversity and Unity of the MiddleEastern World," which was also the theme of Voll's lecture. By …
From Theocracy to Democracy? Towards Secularisation and Individualisation in the Policy of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
There is a common assumption that ‘Islam’ has an inherent opposition between the sacred and the secular which obstructs the secularisation process witnessed in western societies. This study argues that Weber’s notion of Protestant religion as a driving force in the rationalisation of society might be an indicator of how political Islam in itself in the end might lead to a differentiation between the religious and the secular sphere; an individual…
The conversion process in stages: New Muslims in the twenty-first century
This study deals with stages in the process of conversion to Islam. However, unlike the extensive research on pre-conversion stages, this contribution looks at post-conversion development. The initial stage after conversion brings with it a zealotry in which converts tend to become ‘more royal than the king’. The second stage tends to be a period of disappointment with the new peer group. The third stage is one of acceptance, when converts accept…
Benevolent Patriarchy”: Palestinian Women between “Ideal” and “Reality”
In this article polygyny is used to illustrate how the ideal of benevolent patriarchy and the \n“good” Muslim man as the benevolent patriarch tends to create a discrepancy between the \nlegal and the moral in Islamic legislation as well as in Islamic discourse. The study is based \non fieldwork in the West Bank in 2011 when 49 Islamist and Islamic-oriented women were \ninterviewed. The main finding of this study is that Islamist women tend to acc…
Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence
Review of Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence, by \nGeorgina L. Jardim, Farnham, UK, Ashgate, 2014, 256 pp., £70.00 (hardback), \nISBN 978-1-4724-2637-6
Majority versus Minority: Governmentality' and Muslims in Sweden
This article deals with the Muslim community in Sweden in view of the majority-minority dynamics with focus on how values, attitudes, behaviors, and practices of the Swedish majority influence Muslim minority communities and how majority society's approach to Muslims and Islam influences both the relationship Muslims have with non-Muslims and the understandings that Muslims have of Islam
Lyssna på männen: Att Leva I en Patriarkalisk Muslimsk Kontext
The aim of this artide is to scrutinize developments in how prominent male Islamisists have visualized women's role in Islam. Mawdudi and Qutb, to begin with, represent a traditional position which has seen women primarily as wives and mothers. Then, in the 1970s, Turabi introduced interpretations which in many ways were revolutionary. Twenty years låter, Badawi argued for Turabi's views as the only correct ones. Snch a development is possible be…
From Theocracy to Democracy? Towards Secularisation and Individualisation in the Policy of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
There is a common assumption that ‘Islam’ has an inherent opposition between the sacred and the secular which obstructs the secularisation process witnessed in western societies. This study argues that Weber’s notion of Protestant religion as a driving force in the rationalisation of society might be an indicator of how political Islam in itself in the end might lead to a differentiation between the religious and the secular sphere; an individual…
The Scandinavian Conference on Middle East Studies: 24 -27 Rabi al Akhir 1413 / 22-25 October 1992 Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Nordic Association of Middle East Studies, which was establishedin 1989 in Uppsala, Sweden, recently held its second conference.Delegates from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland participated.John O. Voll (who has with Swedish ancestors), chairman of the MiddleEast Studies Association (MESA), came as guest lecturer.The conference's leitmotif was "Diversity and Unity of the MiddleEastern World," which was also the theme of Voll's lecture. By …
Lyssna på männen: Att Leva I en Patriarkalisk Muslimsk Kontext
The aim of this artide is to scrutinize developments in how prominent male Islamisists have visualized women's role in Islam. Mawdudi and Qutb, to begin with, represent a traditional position which has seen women primarily as wives and mothers. Then, in the 1970s, Turabi introduced interpretations which in many ways were revolutionary. Twenty years låter, Badawi argued for Turabi's views as the only correct ones. Snch a development is possible be…
Notions of Umaleu and Ufemaleu Among Contemporary Muslims: With Special Reference to Islamists
Women in Islam: The western experience
Ismail Raji al Faruqi. Islam and Other Faiths
Polygamy on the Air: Reactions to the Egyptian TV Serial Al-hajj Mutwalli
In the Scandinavian countries, most immigrants have satellite dishes or they live in segregated areas where the cable company provides TV channels from the tenants' homelands. The author discusses a TV serial aired on various Arabic-language TV channels during Ramadan 2001. The TV serial deals with polygamy and it stirred emotions in many of the Muslim countries as well as in Arab communities in the Western world. On the basis of an investigation…
Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West
Religious Minorities in the Middle East: Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accommodation
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective. Readership: All those interested in the sociology of religion, majority/minority and ethnic relations, nationalism, state and nation-building, the politics of citizenship, human rights, and the Middle East in gener…
Expressing Religiosity in a Secular Society: The Relativisation of Faith in Muslim Communities in Sweden
This article discusses religion in public space and the case study is Muslim minorities in Sweden. The discussion deals with secularisation trends within Muslim communities in Swedish society in view of the notion of counter-secularisation as a fixed and unchanged form of religious expressions in contemporary public life. What happens in Muslim communities as Muslims of various cultural backgrounds and religious orientations meet and interact in …
The conversion process in stages: New Muslims in the twenty-first century
This study deals with stages in the process of conversion to Islam. However, unlike the extensive research on pre-conversion stages, this contribution looks at post-conversion development. The initial stage after conversion brings with it a zealotry in which converts tend to become ‘more royal than the king’. The second stage tends to be a period of disappointment with the new peer group. The third stage is one of acceptance, when converts accept…
Benevolent Patriarchy”: Palestinian Women between “Ideal” and “Reality”
In this article polygyny is used to illustrate how the ideal of benevolent patriarchy and the \n“good” Muslim man as the benevolent patriarch tends to create a discrepancy between the \nlegal and the moral in Islamic legislation as well as in Islamic discourse. The study is based \non fieldwork in the West Bank in 2011 when 49 Islamist and Islamic-oriented women were \ninterviewed. The main finding of this study is that Islamist women tend to acc…
Searching for Heaven in the Real World: A Sociological Discussion of Conversion in the Arab World
Searching for heaven in the real world : A sociological discussion of conversion in the Arab world
Majority versus Minority: Governmentality' and Muslims in Sweden
This article deals with the Muslim community in Sweden in view of the majority-minority dynamics with focus on how values, attitudes, behaviors, and practices of the Swedish majority influence Muslim minority communities and how majority society's approach to Muslims and Islam influences both the relationship Muslims have with non-Muslims and the understandings that Muslims have of Islam
Media and political contestation in the contemporary Arab world: A Decade of Change
This book addresses the roles of various media in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world. Interdisciplinary contributions examine the sociopolitical dynamics generated in and through media, with perspectives emerging from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, and political science. This book explores both new media and older media forms and formats including the press, satelli…
Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change
Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world. This volume examines this topic with interdisciplinary contributions that range across media studies, anthroplogy, religious studies, and political science and explore both new and older media forms
Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence
Review of Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence, by \nGeorgina L. Jardim, Farnham, UK, Ashgate, 2014, 256 pp., £70.00 (hardback), \nISBN 978-1-4724-2637-6
The Nuances of Islam: Empowerment and Agency for Palestinian Women in the West Bank
Denna artikel handlar om hur islamistiska och islam-orienterade kvinnor på Västbanken upplever "islam", i frågar som hur kvinnor socialiserar och i relationer mellan män och kvinnor. Studien bygger på ett intervjumaterial där kvinnor berättar om vad Islam betyder för dem. Detta intervjumaterial analyseras genom begreppen "empowerment" och "agency", särskilt Kockelman's definition av "agency" som "flexibilitet" och "ansvarighet". Intervjuerna gjor…
Young Muslims’ estrangement from Swedish majority society: Influences from the minority
Resumé
Sociology (14 works) · Islam (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)