Reconciling Local with Global

New Zealand Muslim Women Articulating Faith in their Lives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2174653
AutoresStephanie Dobson (University of Otago, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas228-244
Fecha de publicación2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442213.2012.678502
OpenAlexW2070432743
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas38

This article explores the dynamics of personalised faith in the lives of minority and migrant Muslim women. Research that localises women's understandings of faith contrasts with the considerable literature that focuses on the transnational, politicised character of religion, as well as the discourses that examine religion as a form of gendered patriarchy. This article is a contribution to research that approaches gender and religion from a localised perspective. Drawing on the notion of ‘third space’, this discussion provides ethnographic narratives of Muslim women in New Zealand, focusing on four specific women. Each woman's story illustrates the significance of faith in her life, and demonstrates the unique, and interactive, ways that faith creates new meanings and interpretive possibilities in local contexts, as well as providing emotional solace and a source of coping with wider life stresses

Coping (psychology) · Epistemology · Ethnography · Faith · Narrative · Patriarchy · Perspective (graphical) · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools