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The Civil And Social Participation Of Muslim Women In Australian Community Life
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Book Synopsis The Civil and Social Participation of Muslim Women in Australian Community Life by :
Download or read book The Civil and Social Participation of Muslim Women in Australian Community Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project has involved qualitative research exploring Muslim women's civil and social participation within the Muslim Australian community and the non-Muslim community. The research includes a profile of Muslim women that examines their religious participation, ethnic background and family relations. It has also explored ways in which Muslim Australian women are interacting with the broader Australian community in key sectors such as childcare, education, workforce, social and family life, friends and sport. The report has broadly identified the drivers and barriers to that participation in those sectors of Australian life. At its outcome, it has also identified various strategies to overcome such barriers to participation and provided a series of recommendations based on those strategies. The project has also mapped Muslim women's voluntary organisations, surveying their historical development, governance, funding, and the services that they provide to meet the needs of the community, and the extent to which young women are involved in these organisations.
Book Synopsis The Phenomenology of Community Activism by : Nora Amath
Download or read book The Phenomenology of Community Activism written by Nora Amath and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phenomenology of Community Activism explores how MCSOs have responded to the challenges of the Australian socio-political context, the perceived impact of these experiences, and how Islam is manifested within the contexts of these experiences. In contrast to much publicised jihadist and radical groups, MCSOs are far more representative of Muslim communities and integral to the long-term position of Islam in Australia. This book offers researchers, policy makers and those engaged in community development a rich understanding of Muslim community building, engagement and agency. "This book reveals what will be surprising to some that there are many and varied MCSOs in Australia, that in many ways they are similar to other civil society organisations, serve similar purposes and encounter similar issues. This is a very important datum to stand against the prejudices about Muslims and their organisations."—Professor Emeritus Gary Bouma, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Monash University, UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations–Asia Pacific. Islamic Studies Series - Volume 19
Download or read book ISS 5 Challenging Identities written by and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim women in Australia are at the forefront of a culture war, and not necessarily by choice. As visible representatives of Islam, veiled women face discrimination and abuse, and carry the stigma of a culture frequently deemed unacceptable and inferior. Despite these adverse conditions, Muslim women have demonstrated a remarkable resilience by maintaining their presence in the public domain and by continuing to make a positive contribution to Australia. The experiences of Muslim women in Australia cannot be typecast as a sisterhood of oppressed females. Challenging Identities questions the assumption of incompatible 'Australian values' and 'Islamic values', and provides valuable first-person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.
Book Synopsis Islamic and Muslim Studies in Australia by : Halim Rane
Download or read book Islamic and Muslim Studies in Australia written by Halim Rane and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight articles published in this Special Issue present original, empirical research, using various methods of data collection and analysis, in relation to topics that are pertinent to the study of Islam and Muslims in Australia. The contributors include long-serving scholars in the field, mid-career researchers, and early career researchers who represent many of Australia’s universities engaged in Islamic and Muslim studies, including the Australian National University, Charles Sturt University, Deakin University, Griffith University, and the University of Newcastle. The topics covered in this Special Issue include how Muslim Australians understand Islam (Rane et al. 2020); ethical and epistemological challenges facing Islamic and Muslim studies researchers (Mansouri 2020); Islamic studies in Australia’s university sector (Keskin and Ozalp 2021); Muslim women’s access to and participation in Australia’s mosques (Ghafournia 2020); religion, belonging and active citizenship among Muslim youth in Australia (Ozalp and Ćufurović), the responses of Muslim community organizations to Islamophobia (Cheikh Hussain 2020); Muslim ethical elites (Roose 2020); and the migration experiences of Hazara Afghans (Parkes 2020).
Book Synopsis Muslim Communities in Australia by : Shahram Akbarzadeh
Download or read book Muslim Communities in Australia written by Shahram Akbarzadeh and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the complex human diversity presented by Australia's Muslims, as well as their distinctive contribution and the challenges they pose to a still-evolving Australian multiculturalism. Emphasising the diversity of the Islamic experience in Australia, it presents a useful antidote to the stereotypical image that still colours mainstream perspectives of Islam.
Book Synopsis Muslim Citizens in the West by : Samina Yasmeen
Download or read book Muslim Citizens in the West written by Samina Yasmeen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon original case studies spanning North America, Europe and Australia, Muslim Citizens in the West explores how Muslims have been both the excluded and the excluders within the wider societies in which they live. The book extends debates on the inclusion and exclusion of Muslim minorities beyond ideas of marginalisation to show that, while there have undoubtedly been increased incidences of Islamophobia since September 2001, some Muslim groups have played their own part in separating themselves from the wider society. The cases examined show how these tendencies span geographical, ethnic and gender divides and can be encouraged by a combination of international and national developments prompting some groups to identify wider society as the 'other'. Muslim and non-Muslim scholars and practitioners in political science, social work, history and law also highlight positive outcomes in terms of Muslim activism with relationship to their respective countries and suggest ways in which increasing tensions felt, perceived or assumed can be eased and greater emphasis given to the role Muslims can play in shaping their place in the wider communities where they live.
Book Synopsis Australian Muslim Women’s Borderland Subjectivities by : Lütfiye Ali
Download or read book Australian Muslim Women’s Borderland Subjectivities written by Lütfiye Ali and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book claims a discursive space in academic scholarship for knowledges and ways of knowing that capture the diversity, complexity and full humanness of Australian Muslim women’s subjectivities. It draws on in-depth conversational interviews with 20 Australian Muslim women from various ethnic backgrounds during which the women shared their experiences of being at the crossroads of their religious, gendered, racialised and ethnic identities. The book puts forward a decolonial feminist border methodology by weaving the work of decolonial feminist philosophers Maria Lugones and Gloria Anzaldúa with postmodern feminist thinking on subjectivity and with discourse analysis. This methodology is used to centre and attend to the fluidity and plurality of Muslim women’s subjectivities, at the intersections of race, ethnicity, patriarchy, gender, sexuality and Islam.
Book Synopsis Islam and the Australian News Media by : Halim Rane
Download or read book Islam and the Australian News Media written by Halim Rane and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2010 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few issues have captured media headlines over the past two decades like Islam and Muslims, and much of what the Australian public knows about Islam and its followers is gleaned from the mass media. Islam and the Australian News Media tackles head-on the Australian news media's treatment of Islam and Muslims. This incisive collection brings together the research and insights of academics, editors and journalists on the representation of Islam and its impact on social relations, the newsworthiness of Muslim issues and the complexities of covering Islam. Importantly, Islam and the Australian News Media also explores how Muslim communities in Australia are responding to their image in the Australian news media. This book is a must-read for all those interested in the relationship between media and society."--Publisher description.
Book Synopsis Muslim Citizenship in Liberal Democracies by : Mario Peucker
Download or read book Muslim Citizenship in Liberal Democracies written by Mario Peucker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Muslims’ civic and political participation in Australia and Germany, shedding light on their individual experiences, motives for, and personal implications of their multi-faceted engagement. Based on in-depth interviews with Muslims who have been active within a Muslim community context, mainstream civil society and the political arena, this comparative study reveals the enormous complexities and dynamics of active Muslim citizenship. The author paints a picture of Muslims as ‘almost ordinary’ citizens, who – despite experiences of stigmatisation and exclusion – often seek to contribute to the advancement of society and the promotion of social justice. Their civic engagement, even within a Muslim community context, builds intra- and cross-community networks, and contrary to widespread contestation of Islam and its place in the West, their faith is anything but a civic obstacle to their active citizenship agenda. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Sociology, Politics, Islamic Studies, Sociology of Religion and Political Participation.
Book Synopsis Employment Experiences of Tertiary Educated Australian Muslim Women in Sydne's Multicultural Society and Their Religious Identity by : Gwendolyn Gai Scott
Download or read book Employment Experiences of Tertiary Educated Australian Muslim Women in Sydne's Multicultural Society and Their Religious Identity written by Gwendolyn Gai Scott and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the anthropological understanding of the impact a religious identity may have on the expectations and experiences of tertiary educated Muslim women who are in paid employment in a Western nation. Its broader aim is to further, and deepen, our understanding of the negotiation of religious and cultural differences in the realm of paid employment. A critical investigation is conducted into forty first and second generation Australian Muslim women (the participants) in the age group 25-50 years who have been employed in the professional or corporate workplace for a minimum of four years in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The majority of these women has transcended their socio-economic origins by attaining tertiary qualifications and it is because of these credentials that they now enter their workplace environments on an equal footing with staff who hold similar professional qualifications- in particular their Anglo Australian female counterparts. Australian Muslims are largely misunderstood by the majority population and stereotypical notions about Muslims abound, largely based on assumptions regarding their religion, culture, lifestyles and aspirations. A major aim of this thesis encompassesencounters of exclusion experienced by the participants. The research analyses how theparticipants' understanding of social norms are marginalised in the context of paid employment and identifies some of the negative consequences social exclusion has for the participants' positive sense of self, as well as for the Muslim community's sense of solidarity. There is much intercultural enquiry into the integration of ethnically and culturally diverse societies that, in turn, provides a wide range of conceptual frameworks to examine the tensions and complexities associated with the inclusion and exclusion of minority groups and individuals. There is limited enquiry concerned with tertiary educated Australian Muslim women and the effects of social exclusion on the formation of the identity that they bring to their workplace environments. This thesis aims to address this gap using ethnographic research that involved 18 months' fieldwork in Sydney. In terms of this theme of identity in the workplace, three aspects are chosen to understand the experiences that have influenced the participants' identity formation,both as first and second generation Australian Muslim women and daughters of first generation immigrants: the identity that has been influenced by experiences of stereotyping and exclusion in everyday living; the role that appearance plays in negotiating an identity in the workplace environment; the identity that has been impacted by an in-group and out-group mentality and the barriers that are formed as a consequence. It is through this lens of understanding that the research explores the challenges faced by tertiary educated Muslim women in the domain of paid employment. It finds that barriers form between Muslims and Anglo Australians because of misunderstandings and misinformation regarding Muslim identities. The thesis determines that it is possible to maintain a positive Muslim identity within the challenges of this environment and identifies what that identity may be. Research supports the fact that the higher the educational attainment, the higher the likelihood of engagement in paid employment. The 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics(ABS) figures show that Muslims now represent 2.2 per cent of the Australian population.The ABS (2001) also indicates that, in comparison to their Anglo Australian female counterparts, Muslim women attend universities in greater proportions than their numbers in the population. As these figures demonstrate, in the near future, employers will encounter more young Muslim women graduates applying for employment. It is therefore, important that these employers understand the experiences, expectations and identities of these Muslim women to preempt the loss of this valuable and emerging employment resource.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from around the World by : Adam Possamai
Download or read book The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from around the World written by Adam Possamai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers a collection of papers that present a comparative analysis of the development of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities, such as America, Australia, Germany, and Italy, as well as countries with Muslim majorities, such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Tunisia. The Sociology of Shari’a provides a global analysis of these important legal transformations and analyzesthe topic from a sociological perspective. It explores examples of non-Western countries that have a Muslim minority in their populations, including South Africa, China, Singapore, and the Philippines. In addition, the third part of the book includes case studies that explore some ground-breaking theories on the sociology of Shari’a, such as the application of Black, Chambliss, and Eisenstein’s sociological perspectives.
Book Synopsis From Victims to Suspects by : Shakira Hussein
Download or read book From Victims to Suspects written by Shakira Hussein and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called War on Terror, in its many incarnations, has always been a war with gender at its heart. Once regarded as helpless victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded by both Muslim and non-Muslim disciplinarians as a potential threat to be kept under control. How did this shift in attitudes come about? Shakira Hussein explores the lives of women negotiating the hazards of the post-9/11 terrain, from volatile Afghan refugee camps and Pakistani weddings to Australian suburbia and campaigns to ‘ban the burqa’. Her unique perspective on feminism, multiculturalism, race and religion is one that we urgently need.
Download or read book ISS 6 Muslims In Australia written by and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims in Australia have attracted increased attention as citizens in the last decade. The research scholars in this book present a complex and dynamic picture of their presence and experiences in Australia, taking us far beyond simplistic notions of security threats and discrimination. Their contributions reveal that Muslims and non-Muslims, as individuals and communities, display many different attitudes towards each other and towards many issues, including reactions to the media, threats of terrorism and access to Islamic schools. The non-Muslim community does not always set the agenda for these interactions: Muslims experience exclusion while excluding others at the same time, often other Muslims. Muslims in Australia portrays the varied ways in which Muslims traverse spaces of inclusion and exclusion, and suggests ideas to encourage and sustain acceptance and social cohesion.
Book Synopsis ISS 10 Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging by :
Download or read book ISS 10 Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging written by and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensational reporting by the media has led to attitudes that racialise Muslims and frame them as potential threats to national security, placing them outside the circle of trustworthy citizenship. Muslims in the West are increasingly confronted with the pressure of conforming to dominant core values and accepting 'mere tolerance' from society, or else risk exclusion and even hostility when exercising their rights to maintain diverse cultural norms and religious practices. Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Belonging offers not only rigourous accounts of current difficulties, but also new thinking and deeper understanding about race relations and intercultural engagement in multicultural societies. It explores the increasing visibility of Muslim migrants in the West and the implications this has for multicultural co-existence, cultural representations, belonging and inclusive citizenship.
Book Synopsis Muslim Active Citizenship in the West by : Mario Peucker
Download or read book Muslim Active Citizenship in the West written by Mario Peucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim Active Citizenship in the West investigates the emergence and nature of Muslims’ struggle for recognition as full members of society in Australia, Great Britain and Germany. What actions have been taken by Muslims to achieve equal civic standing? How do socio-political and socio-economic factors impact on these processes? And how do Muslims negotiate their place in a society that is often regarded as sceptical – if not hostile – towards Muslims’ desire to belong? This book sheds new light on Muslims’ path towards citizenship in Australia, Great Britain and Germany. Existing research and statistics on Muslims’ socio-economic status, community formation, claim-making and political responses, and the public portrayal of Islam are systematically examined. These insights are tested ‘through the eyes of Muslims’, based on in-depth interviews with Muslim community leaders and other experts in all three countries. The findings offer unique perspectives on Muslim resilience to be recognised as equal citizens of Islamic faith in very different socio-political national settings. Pursuing an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, this book examines the country-specific interplay of historical, institutional, political, and identity dimensions of Muslims’ active citizenship and will be invaluable for students and researchers with an interest in Sociology, Religious Studies and Political Science.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Shari’a by : Adam Possamai
Download or read book The Sociology of Shari’a written by Adam Possamai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection focuses on the comparative analysis of the application of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities (e.g. USA, Australia, Germany and Italy) and majorities (e.g. Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Morocco). Most chapters in this new edition have been revised and the book as a whole has been updated to give even more international coverage. This text provides a sociological and global analysis of a phenomenon that goes beyond the ‘West versus the rest’ dichotomy. One example of this is how included are case studies in Muslim minority countries not exclusively located in the West. Although the contributors of this book come from various disciplines such as law, anthropology, and sociology, this volume has a strong sociological focus on the analysis of Shari’a. The final part of the book indeed draws out from all the case studies explored some ground-breaking theories on the sociology of Shari’a such as the application of Black, Chambliss and Eisenstein’s sociological theories. This text appeals to students and researchers working in the sociology of religion.
Book Synopsis Second-generation Turkish Australian Muslim Women by : Zuhal Caliskan
Download or read book Second-generation Turkish Australian Muslim Women written by Zuhal Caliskan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on second-generation Turkish-Australian Muslim women who formed their ethnic and religious identities within certain contexts. This study examines the views of 14 second-generation married Turkish-Australian Muslim women regarding issues of family, community, ethnicity, gender and marriage partner choices. It provides insight into some of the complex and diverse ways they define their experience of modernisation, cultural values and practices such as marriage, family and community values in Australia. It explores themes relating to issues of gender, Muslim women, Islam and Western theory on gender and Islam. The findings in the thesis indicate that the cultural and religious identities of the women emerged heavily influenced by family and social forces that exist in and around their lives. In particular, it shows how parents use cultural and religious tools to draw boundaries around ideal and stigmatized gender norms around their daughters' identification. This highlights how daughters learn to govern and control their social behaviours which contribute to how marriage partner choices are determined. Thus, it demonstrates the importance of social inclusion and social integration amongst their ethnic society which manages the ways in which they move about and give meaning to their socially stratified world. The thesis also highlights that ethnic identity is a complex process in which the participants utilise social, cultural and religious resources simultaneously to negotiate multiple identities. The different interpretations of social practices within vast parameters of ethnic, cultural and religious boundaries indicate there is the need to re-examine theoretical notions of ethnicity, gender and religion in order to better understand their constructed identities. The thesis demonstrates how the participants resist parental and community expectations while negotiating ways to construct their Turkish-Australian Muslim identities while residing in Australia.
