The conversion narratives of all South Asian respondents show that, without exception, religion played an important role in their upbringing. Migrant parents clearly fought hard to stave off the effects of living in a secular […]
The conversion narrative of Akila, a second-generation British African-Caribbean woman in her mid-twenties, is a good starting point for trying to understand the causes of religious resurgence that have “swept across the world in the […]
Muslim heritage (MH) Salafi converts comprised the largest section of my cohort: there were 19 in total, and more ethnically and nationally diverse than their NMH counterparts. Here too, the nature and extent of religious […]
Conversion narratives of non-Muslim heritage (NMH) females show that despite political discourse shifting towards denigrating Muslim women in the West, where visible and “veiled Muslim women in particular emerge as ideal targets for those who […]
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