Processus de conversion et modes d'identification à l'islam

L'exemple de la France et des Etats-Unis

Bibliographic Data

ID18972166
AuthorsSarah Daynes (corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume46
Issue3
Pages313-323
Publication date1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7686 • E-ISSN: 1461-7404
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/003776899046003007
OpenAlexW2072810175
LanguageFR
Citations received7
References cited4

Using fieldwork carried out in France and the United States, the author considers the diversity of the representations converts have about Islam. She distinguishes several ideal-typical modes of identification with Islam, demonstrating the complexity of the conversion process: for individual converts, Islam can represent a spiritual quest, an opposition to Christianity, the continuation of a monotheist path, a means of affirming identity or ethnicity, or a social protest. These elements are not in relaity exclusive, but are blended in many different combinations, reflecting the variety of collective histories and individual stories; this typology will, it is hoped, be a useful analytic tool (in terms of community, identity, and resistance) for studying the dynamism of community religious movements, which are at present growing rapidly

Aesthetics · Dynamism · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Humanities · Identity (music) · Islam · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Typology · Anthropology · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies

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