Veiling in Fear or in Faith? Meanings of the<i>Hijab</i>to Practicing Muslim Wives and Husbands in USA

Alghafli, Zahra; Marks, Loren D.; Hatch, Trevan; Rose, Andrew H.

doi:10.1080/01494929.2017.1297757

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“…Additionally, many Muslim participants (both women and men, wives and husbands) expressed widely varying interpretations of hijab (the Islamic practice of covering) that reflected different levels of flexibility in both belief and practice. Indeed, the variations in our data were substantial enough to allow a recent article on the topic (Alghafli et al 2017).…”

Section: Theme 2: Firmness and Flexibility In Religious Beliefsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness and Religious Flexibility as Complementary Loyalties in Faith Transmission

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Research has found that intergenerational transmission of religiosity results in higher family functioning and improved family relationships. Yet the Pew Research Center found that 44% of Americans reported that they had left the religious affiliation of their childhood. And 78% of the expanding group of those who identify as religiously unaffiliated (“Nones”) reported that they were raised in “highly religious families.” We suggest that this may be, in part, associated with religious parents exercising excessive firmness with inadequate flexibility (rigidity). We used a multiphase, systematic, team-based process to code 8000+ pages of in-depth interviews from 198 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim families from 17 states in all 8 major religio-cultural regions of the United States. We framed firmness as mainly about loyalty to God and God’s purposes, and flexibility as mainly about loyalty to family members and their needs and circumstances. The reported findings provided a range of examples illustrating (a) religious firmness, (b) religious flexibility, as well as (c) efforts to balance and combine firmness and flexibility. We discuss conceptual and practical implications of treating firmness and flexibility as complementary loyalties in intergenerational faith transmission.

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Section: Theme 2: Firmness and Flexibility In Religious Beliefsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness and Religious Flexibility as Complementary Loyalties in Faith Transmission

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“…(Alghafli, Marks, Hatch, & Rose, ; Alghafli et al, ; Kelley et al, ; Leonhardt et al, ; Marks, ; Marks, Hatch, & Dollahite, ; Marks & Dollahite, ). In addition to prayer, participants reported that relational rituals and practices (e.g., Shabbat, Ramadan, studying sacred texts, shared meals) were important to them as a way of practicing their faith in their homes.…”

Section: Generative Devotion Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Alghafli et al, ; Dollahite, Marks, & Dalton, ; Dollahite, Marks, & Young, ; Marks, Hopkins, Nesteruk, Chaney, & Baumgartner, ; Marks et al, in press, a; Marks et al, in press, b; Millet et al, ). Participants reported that their religious beliefs, practices, and communities helped them endure prosaic struggles and profound challenges.…”

Section: Generative Devotion Frameworkmentioning

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Generative Devotion: A Theory of Sacred Relational Care in Families of Faith

Dollahite

Marks

Wurm

2019

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Generative devotion is a middle‐range theory grounded in analyses of interviews with religious and nonreligious families that illuminates ways religion can facilitate strong family relations within and across generations. Generative devotion is a way of approaching religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, and communities that attends to the long‐term well‐being of family members, is essentially other‐oriented, responds to abiding needs of persons, respects the agency of others, and is consciously relational in nature. This article discusses various influences that have informed the development of the theoretical framework of generative devotion; the major terms of the framework and how generative devotion differs from other forms of religious devotion; 10 pathways to generative devotion; a metaprocess (generative family conversations) to better realize generative devotion; and assumptions about devotion in general, shared devotion, and generative devotion. Concepts are illustrated with quotes from in‐depth interviews.

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“…A few of the central themes were presented in a recent article (Alghafli et al 2014b). Another theme (meanings behind the Hijab or practice of veiling/covering in Islam) is discussed in another recent manuscript (Alghafli et al 2017). In this article, we focus on a single theme but do so in depth: "Fasting brings us closer to each other."…”

Section: Qualitative Data Analysismentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Unfortunately, empirical research and/or scholarly evidence that conveys deeper insight and awareness regarding connections between religious practices and family relationships for Muslim families is scarce (Alghafli 2015). More specifically, there is a dearth of empirical social science literature that sheds light on practicing Muslim families living in the United States, though some work is emerging (see Alghafli et al 2014bAlghafli et al , 2017Britto and Amer 2007;Franceschelli and O'Brien 2014;Hatch et al 2017). First, however, we offer a brief overview of the extant research on Muslims and Muslim families, most of which is based on non-U.S. samples.…”

Section: Social Science Research On Religion and Family Lifementioning

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A Qualitative Study of Ramadan: A Month of Fasting, Family, and Faith

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Hatch

Rose

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Islam is a major world religion and the Muslim population is one of the fastest growing religious populations in the Western world, including in the United States. However, few research studies have examined the lived religious experience of U.S. Muslim families. Much of the attention on Islam among researchers and the media tends to be on controversial aspects of the religion. The purpose of this paper is to examine the unique religious practice of the month-long fast of Ramadan, especially its perceived role on marital and familial relationships from an insider’s perspective. Content analysis of in-depth, qualitative interviews of twenty diverse Shia and Sunni Muslim families living in the United States (N = 47 individuals) yielded several emergent themes. This study presents and explores data on the focal theme: “fasting brings us closer together.” These data suggest that Ramadan serves a sacred, unifying, and integrating purpose for many of the 47 practicing Muslim mothers, fathers, and youth in this study. Meanings and processes involved in Ramadan and family relationships are explored and explained. Implications and applications of the research findings are discussed and some potential directions for future research are outlined.

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Veiling in Fear or in Faith? Meanings of theHijabto Practicing Muslim Wives and Husbands in USA

Cited by 16 publications

References 26 publications

Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness and Religious Flexibility as Complementary Loyalties in Faith Transmission

Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness and Religious Flexibility as Complementary Loyalties in Faith Transmission

Generative Devotion: A Theory of Sacred Relational Care in Families of Faith

A Qualitative Study of Ramadan: A Month of Fasting, Family, and Faith

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