The need for personal change because of the tension present in an individual’s current situation has been cited as the first predisposing condition necessary for religious conversion (Roberts and Yamane 2016:135). The “anomie” or “normlessness” […]
Respondents from Muslim countries also expressed this sense of ‘something missing’ and of feeling ‘lost’. However, they expressed their identity crisis more in terms of feeling the repercussions of “accelerated globalization” and rapid modernisation taking […]
Like their African-Caribbean Non-Muslim Heritage and French Muslim-Heritage (MH) respondents, British MH respondents also felt a sense of exclusion and a lack of belonging. Fatima, who grew up in a tiny minority Bangladeshi community in […]
Adding to the “cohort” or “generational effect” was the fact that all Muslim Heritage (MH) respondents cited the significance of ‘9/11’ as part of the search for Salafism in their conversion narratives. This was particularly […]
The damaging effects of “misrepresentation” or “nonrepresentation” of identity (Weedon 2004:29) for second-generation Muslim Heritage (MH) respondents from Europe (and other parts of the world) bore a strong resemblance to those of their second-generation Non-Muslim […]
Rahima’s case also involves multiple sources of unhappiness: she grew up as her poorly mother’s primary carer, with little help from her stepfather and none from external agencies such as social services. Rahima connected her […]
These childhood experiences often perpetuated further problems during adolescence, thereby exacerbating the identity crisis. For instance, all respondents except one who were from African-Caribbean backgrounds and raised by their mothers or grandmothers also became young […]
Non-Muslim Heritage (NMH) African-Caribbean respondent Rahima captured the essence of a primary theme in this research. She described the descendants of economic migrant parents in Britain as part of a ‘lost’ generation, a term similar […]
By contrast, themes emerging from the conversion narratives of the three French Muslim heritage (MH) respondents, who migrated to Birmingham from France in the 2000s, bore some similarities to those of the British South Asians […]
The radical conversion of females to an orthodox religious sect of a non-Western origin, known as Salafism in the West, remains an enigma for many who try to understand this seemingly puzzling behaviour from the […]
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