2013 2013-02-15 10.17192/mjr.2013.17.3279 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2013-97-32794 keine Angabe Transnational Muslim Americans: Four Women in Jordan This article examines the biographies of four Muslim American women who have lived in Amman, Jordan. It seeks to understand how residency in this Muslim-majority country in the Middle East has affected their religious attitudes and practices as well as their gender, ethnic, and national identities. In offering analysis of these women’s own thinking about how their time in Jordan hador had not altered their Muslim and American identities and practices, this article contributes to larger scholarly conversations about religion and politics in transnational perspective. The travel and observations of these four women in Amman evidenced the often unpredictable nature of personal change when a human being moves, both physically and spiritually, from one place to another. Their stories confirm that the focus of much social scientific literature on transnationalism on how institutions—both formal and informal, state and non-state--delimit, constrain, and shape political identity is useful and necessary in understanding transnational ventures. But it also shows that such literature does not always account for the possible religious meanings of human movement. The transnational Muslim Americans in this study engage in ethical and cosmic, national and transnational practices all at once. Their stories show how an account sensitive to religious activity can helpfully account for the multiple meanings of transnational practice among Muslim Americans. Nationalität Frauen american muslims Jordanien USA muslimische Amerikaner Islam Women Nationality Gender Jordan

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Nationalität Frauen This article examines the biographies of four Muslim American women who have lived in Amman, Jordan. It seeks to understand how residency in this Muslim-majority country in the Middle East has affected their religious attitudes and practices as well as their gender, ethnic, and national identities. In offering analysis of these women’s own thinking about how their time in Jordan hador had not altered their Muslim and American identities and practices, this article contributes to larger scholarly conversations about religion and politics in transnational perspective. The travel and observations of these four women in Amman evidenced the often unpredictable nature of personal change when a human being moves, both physically and spiritually, from one place to another. Their stories confirm that the focus of much social scientific literature on transnationalism on how institutions—both formal and informal, state and non-state--delimit, constrain, and shape political identity is useful and necessary in understanding transnational ventures. But it also shows that such literature does not always account for the possible religious meanings of human movement. The transnational Muslim Americans in this study engage in ethical and cosmic, national and transnational practices all at once. Their stories show how an account sensitive to religious activity can helpfully account for the multiple meanings of transnational practice among Muslim Americans. american muslims Jordanien USA 2017-11-23 muslimische Amerikaner https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2013.17.3279 Transnational Muslim Americans: Four Women in Jordan Islam 2013-02-15 application/pdf Women article 2013 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2013-979 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2013/97/cover.png https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2013.17.2 17 Vol 17 No 2 (2013) 2 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/cover.png Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology Religion Philosophy and theory of religion 1996 1418722-x Periodical urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00048 Marburg Journal of Religion 1612-2941 Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2013 2013-08-15 PeriodicalPart Nationality urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2013-97-32794 Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg 2013-02-15 Gender https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2013/97/3279/3279.png Jordan English Edward E. Curtis IV Curtis IV, Edward E.

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