En busca de autoridad. Jóvenes musulmanas y conocimiento religioso en Madrid. In Search of Authority: Young Muslim females and Religious Knowledge in Madrid

Lems, Johanna Martine

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“…Educational activity done by and for women in Spanish mosques-an area also studied at the European level (Ali 2012;Aubarell and Moreras 2005;Dominguez Diaz 2014;Jonker 2003)-can be interpreted as a revitalization of religious dynamics (Moreras 1999), as processes of re-Islamization (Cesari 1999) or as a step towards new positions for Muslim women within their communities. However, as the interviewees themselves observed, there is no revitalization or re-Islamization in their actions, because 'we never stopped believing and practicing', suggesting that, as Van Bruinessen and Allievi (2013) have argued, this educational activity should simply be understood as an active search for Islamic knowledge in a non-Islamic European context (Lems 2016).…”

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The Mosque as an Educational Space: Muslim Women and Religious Authority in 21st-Century Spain

Mateo

2019

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This article presents the results of a fieldwork project from January to April 2017 in Spanish mosques, an on-the-ground investigation using interviews with female Muslim teachers who constitute a sort of women’s movement within Islamic education in Islamic associations and schools across Spain. These women reflect on their zeal for teaching and the desire to receive an education in Islamic studies among Muslim women, students and teachers, who participate in these activities to transmit their knowledge of Islam in Spain. These female teachers form a heterodox group of interconnected educators who have acquired status within their communities, legitimized by their ability to impart Islamic religious knowledge, and who could prove to be potential alternative educational authorities in Spanish Islam. This educational activity by and for women in Spanish mosques, which has been studied by others at the European level could be seen as a revitalization of religious dynamics or as processes of re-Islamization. However, as the interviewees themselves observe, ‘we never stopped believing and practicing’, suggesting that this educational activity should be situated within the framework of the active search for Islamic knowledge in a non-Islamic European context.

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The Mosque as an Educational Space: Muslim Women and Religious Authority in 21st-Century Spain

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2019

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“…In particular, the works of Meer and Modood (2009), Modood (2020), Meer (2013), Bravo López (2013), and Lems (2016), have approached the study of ‘anti-Muslimism’ as a manifold socially constructed category that often encompasses multiple dimensions of stigma (racial, ethnic and religious). Meer and Modood (2009: 344) affirmed that ‘we should guard against the characterization of racism as a form of “inherentism” or “biological determinism”, which leaves little space to conceive the ways in which cultural racism draws on physical appearance as one marker, among others, but is not solely premised on conceptions of biology in a way that ignores religion, culture and so forth’.…”

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The everyday dimensions of stigma. Morofobia in everyday life of daughters of Maghrebi-Spanish couples in Granada and Barcelona (Spain)

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Cerchiaro

2023

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Negative attitudes towards Muslim minorities are an increasingly common phenomenon in many European countries. This stigma is often associated with religious discrimination; on others, it has a more marked racial connotation. Based on biographical interviews with 19 daughters of mixed Maghrebi-Spanish families in Granada and Barcelona (Spain), this article disentangles the notion of stigma, showing how the experiences of these young women are characterized by a stratified mix of racial, ethnic, and religious discriminations that, together, exemplify how Morofobia takes place in Spain. Our findings highlight how these women are not only passively affected by this stigma, but have learned to cope with it, showing a high degree of reflexivity and acquired social skills that inform their agency. The article encourages the adoption of a cultural sociological perspective to study the meaning of stigma from an emic perspective. In so doing, it sheds light on the everyday consequences of the social transformation of national identities in a historical period dominated by the resurgence of nationalism and ‘bordering regimes.’

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Controlling civic engagement of youth spanish muslims

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Khir-Allah

2022

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This paper focuses on Muslim Civil Society structures and, more specifically, on the gap between the organizations from the first (migrant) generation and the new grammars of action of new generations of Spanish Muslims. The originality of this article lies in its power to address three fundamental questions: (1) Are the umbrella organizations silencing the demands of Muslim youth?; (2) How do Muslim youth resist such representative hegemony? and; (3) What specific strategies are Muslim women currently developing to gain representation and involvement in mainstream Spanish society? We find evidence for new grammars of action defying traditional authorities and reject decontextualized, asynchronous Islam. Young women are engaging in broader and inclusive activism, inspired by religion affiliation in order to reinforce their external solidarity and engagement in mainstream political structures. By contrast, young men are calling for a new Muslim leadership to reinforce primary solidarity and concentrate more on earning religious rights. For women, religion is a vector to participation and for men, it is a form of participation.

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En busca de autoridad. Jóvenes musulmanas y conocimiento religioso en Madrid. In Search of Authority: Young Muslim females and Religious Knowledge in Madrid

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Cited by 5 publications

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The Mosque as an Educational Space: Muslim Women and Religious Authority in 21st-Century Spain

The Mosque as an Educational Space: Muslim Women and Religious Authority in 21st-Century Spain

The everyday dimensions of stigma. Morofobia in everyday life of daughters of Maghrebi-Spanish couples in Granada and Barcelona (Spain)

Controlling civic engagement of youth spanish muslims

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