[PDF] Women Converts Transformations Knowledge Perspectives And Narratives eBook

Author : Daniela Stoica
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 2013
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ISBN : 9783846502259

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Initially interested in the broader topic of women's status in Islam, I began this research with the intention of challenging anti-Islamic stereotypes that often emerge from the mainstream media coverage of events in which Muslims are involved. Sometimes these associate subordination with every single Muslim woman, the veil with oppression, and pinpoint polygamy to be luring in the shadow of every Muslim marriage. The topic of conversion creates the necessary space for deconstructing such biased depictions of Islam, of Muslim women and particularly of those who deliberately embrace a religion which they have perceived as women oppressive, before discovering it and experiencing it themselves. This book is the outcome of a research project that tackles the topic of Islam conversion in two dissimilar frameworks, inside which I nevertheless discovered generally similar mechanisms that prompt these experiences, as well comparable motivations among converted women and the similar routes they followed inside Islam. Nonetheless, these appeared to be distinct in specific aspects, specifically related to local social or cultural dynamics.

Author : Susan E. Bell
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2009
Category : DES-exposed daughters
ISBN : 1592139205

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How the DES catastrophe created the feminist health movement.

Author : Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004529543

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The first systematic study of conversion to Islam among Polish women in English, this book offers insights about lived realities of female Polish converts who create dynamic strategies of managing their spoiled identities in a variety of contexts including Poland and the UK.

Author : Dominic Arcamone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532678924

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The process of human transformation is complex and ongoing. This book presents a framework for understanding human transformation through the insights of Bernard Lonergan. The reader will be introduced to terms such as the turn to the subject, consciousness, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. It will explore terms such as horizon, feelings, values, self-esteem, sublation, conversion, dialectic, and religious experience. The book explores transformation through the way mentors have authored their own lives, told their own stories, and taken possession of their interiority. Transformation is illustrated through the lives of saints and ordinary men and women who did extraordinary things, such as St. Augustine, Dag Hammarskjold, Vaclav Havel, Franz Jaggerstatter, St. Therese of Lisieux, Fredrich Nietzsche, Katherine Ann Power, and Marie Cardinal. Transformation is also illustrated through the medium of cinema: Babette’s Feast, The Mission, As It is in Heaven, Romero, Dead Poets Society, Ordinary People, The Godfather trilogy, Three Color trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dial M for Murder, and Twelve Angry Men. While the book treats religious, moral, affective, intellectual, and psychic conversion as moments of transformation, it argues that ecological conversion requires all of these so as to meet the most serious moral challenge of our time.

Author : Lauren Silberman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520378768

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The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century. In these books, Spenser exposes fictions of total control for what they are—fictions. The text affirms the value of risk and improvisation over the temptation to seek guarantees. The books examine the role of desire in moving us to function in an uncertain world and tempting us to foreclose that uncertainty by strategies that seek to frame knowledge through total mastery of it.

Author : Mary McAleer Balkun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113754323X

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The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narratives contributed to empire formation. Focusing on the female body as a site of contestation, the essays describe acts of bravery, subversion, and survival expressed in a variety of genres, including the saga, letter, diary, captivity narrative, travel narrative, verse, sentimental novel, and autobiography. The volume also speaks to a range of female experience, across the Americas and across time, from the Viking exploration to early nineteenth-century United States, challenging scholars to reflect on the implications of early American literature even to the present day.

Author : Richard R. Melick, Jr.
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433671557

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Teaching that Transforms aims to improve the ways in which the Bible is taught to adult learners. As grownups today leave the church in droves, academic professors Richard and Shera Melick recognize that it is in part because many who teach adults have little or no exposure to the distinctive characteristics of adult learners, rendering their lessons ineffective. Affirming the traditional authority of God’s Word while considering the need to make it relevant to every generation in its cultural and educational context, the authors set out to present an easily understood method for teaching the Bible among adults which they describe as “transformactional.” Indeed, the Bible is taught in order to transform a person’s life. And the next great result of that transformation is putting a stronger faith into action.

Author : Mariecke van den Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1000195813

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This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on ‘transforming bodies’: bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe. It explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and religion that underpin embodied transformations. Using post-secularist, postcolonial and gender/queer perspectives, it aims to gain a better understanding of the orchestrations and effects of larger social transitions related to religion. This volume is the outcome of the intensive collaboration of the authors, who for years have been meeting regularly in Utrecht, the Netherlands, to discuss themes related to religion and ‘the challenge of difference’, with an added afterword by Prof. Pamela Klassen from the University of Toronto. The book is divided in three subsections that focus on particular types of embodiment: body politics in governmental and NGO organisations; the role of the body in literary and/or autobiographical narratives; and ethnographic case studies of bodies in daily life. Doing so, it provides an innovative exploration of contemporary religion and the body. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Theology, and Philosophy.

Author : María Eugenia Cotera
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292782489

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Gloria Anzaldua Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2009 In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved renown in the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, and ethnolinguistics during the 1920s and 1930s. While all three collaborated with leading male intellectuals in these disciplines to produce innovative ethnographic accounts of their own communities, they also turned away from ethnographic meaning making at key points in their careers and explored the realm of storytelling through vivid mixed-genre novels centered on the lives of women. In this book, Cotera offers an intellectual history situated in the "borderlands" between conventional accounts of anthropology, women's history, and African American, Mexican American and Native American intellectual genealogies. At its core is also a meditation on what it means to draw three women—from disparate though nevertheless interconnected histories of marginalization—into conversation with one another. Can such a conversation reveal a shared history that has been erased due to institutional racism, sexism, and simple neglect? Is there a mode of comparative reading that can explore their points of connection even as it remains attentive to their differences? These are the questions at the core of this book, which offers not only a corrective history centered on the lives of women of color intellectuals, but also a methodology for comparative analysis shaped by their visions of the world.