ROMANIAN WOMEN CONSTRUCTING MUSLIM BIOGRAPHIES THE FEMININE EXPERIENCE OF ISLAM CONVERSION
ROMANIAN WOMEN CONSTRUCTING MUSLIM BIOGRAPHIES THE FEMININE EXPERIENCE OF ISLAM CONVERSION

Summary/Abstract: Employing the narrative approach in the analysis of the conversion accounts of four Romanian Muslim women converts, the article identifies the mechanisms through which converts relate their Muslim identity to their religious background, the patterns defining their “alternation” experience, as well as the Muslim symbolic universe elements converts internalize and embody. In order to reveal these aspects, conversion narratives segments were divided using Labov’s structural analysis – in Orientation, Complicating Action, Evaluation and Resolution – and a specific focus was maintained on aspects pertaining at language use, stylistic resources (repetitions, parallelisms), and emerging themes.

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