«I am a Muslim in my own way». Religiousness, spirituality and secularism in young Muslim female students
At a time when Islam is of current concern in Europe, this research questions the significance of being Muslim for the daughters of Moroccan immigration in Spain, addressing the religious issue from the perspective and standpoint of young student women. It is proposed primarily to hear from them by...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Alicante
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Feminismo/s |
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| Online Access: | https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2016-n28-soy-musulmana-a-mi-manera-religiosidad-espiritualidad-y-laicismo-de-las-jovenes-estudiantes-musulmanas |
| Summary: | At a time when Islam is of current concern in Europe, this research questions the significance of being Muslim for the daughters of Moroccan immigration in Spain, addressing the religious issue from the perspective and standpoint of young student women. It is proposed primarily to hear from them by means of in-depth interviews. The focus of the debate on the religiousness of the young women is the question of identity-construction, gender equality, individual and religious freedom. Young students interviewed perform a critical and personal redefinition of Islam, which is summed up in the phrase, repeated by many of them: «I am a Muslim in my own way». This perception of their own religion is conditioned by gender, and connects with a transnational view of religion, which is no longer experienced as a preferably cultural and identity phenomenon, in order to become an intimate and spiritual experience, consistent with the notion of a personal God of postmodernism, defined by Beck as the individualization of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1696-8166 1989-9998 |