• Corpus ID: 132958783

Reworking Femininity and Relatedness among Muslim Converts in Buenos Aires

@inproceedings{Gasser2016ReworkingFA,
  title={Reworking Femininity and Relatedness among Muslim Converts in Buenos Aires},
  author={Tiffany Utv{\ae}r Gasser},
  year={2016}
}

• T. Gasser
• Published 2016
• Political Science

III NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION V ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VII TABLE OF CONTENTS IX CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION 1 GUIDING THEMES 2 BUENOS AIRES, THE SUPER-DIVERSE LANDSCAPE 4 The Religious Scene 5 HISTORY OF ISLAM IN BUENOS AIRES 6 An Alternative History 8 ENTRY TO THE FIELD 8 THE MOSQUES 10 The Islamic Center of Buenos Aires 11 The Sufi Derga 13 KEY INFORMANTS 15 METHODOLOGY, LANGUAGES, AND MY ROLE IN THE FIELD 16 Determining the Field 17 A non-Muslim in the Mosques 17 The Time in Between Prayers 19 Lost in Translation 19 Ethical Considerations 20 STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS 21 CHAPTER TWO – RELIGIOUS CONVERSION AND REWORKED FEMININITIES 23 APPROACHES TO RELIGIOUS CONVERSION 23 A Note on Agency 26 Religious Revivalism and Conversion 26 THE ATTRACTION OF ISLAM: CONTEXT AND CRISIS OF CONVERSION 27 THE RITUAL COMMITMENT: BECOMING A MUSLIM 30 CONSEQUENCES: EMBODIMENT OF CONVERSION 31 PRACTICES OF ISLAM 31