Islam and Young Bangladeshis: Conference and Conference Panel
Islamic Piety and Gender Relationships among Contemporary Muslims: Conference Panel, December 2009
This panel was convened by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel as part of the Australian Anthropological Society conference at Macquarie University, Sydney, 9-11 December 2009.
List of papers:
- Inger Furseth. 'Could Sheila have been a Muslim? Individualism and subjectivity among Muslim immigrant women in the Los Angeles area.'
- Jan Ali, 'Islamic Piety in Muslim Women.'
- Samia Huq, 'What Really is the Politics of Piety? Exploring the Politics of Apolitical Religious Gatherings in Urban Bangladesh.'
- Sharyn Graham Davies, 'Queer Piety: Transgendered Displays of Islam in Indonesia.'
- Santi Rozario, 'Islamic Piety Against the Family'
- Geoffrey Samuel, 'Islamic Piety and Masculinity'
A selection of papers from this conference has been published as a special issue of the journal Contemporary Islam (volume 5, pp.219-322).
Finding Muslim Partners, Building Islamic Lives: Young South Asian Muslims At Home and in the Diaspora: International Conference, November 2010
This conference was convened by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel at St Michael's College, Llandaff, Cardiff, 5-7 November 2010. The programme and abstracts can be downloaded here
- Geoffrey Samuel, 'Modernist Islam in Bangladesh and the UK: The Background to Our Study.'
- Santi Rozario, 'Islamic Marriage: A Haven in an Uncertain World.'
- Nazli Kibria, '“Marry into a Good Family”: The Changing Meanings of Transnational Family Capital and Muslim Identity for Young Bangladeshi Muslims of the Diaspora.'
- Bulbul Siddiqi, 'Marriage, Partnership and 'Islamic Life': Case of British Bangladeshi Youth.'
- Fauzia Ahmed, 'Graduating Towards Marriage? Attitudes Towards Marriage and Relationships among University-Educated British Muslim Women'
- Anna Piela 'Religion, Aesthetics and Self-Presentation: Photographs of Young Muslim Women on Match-Making Websites'
- Jody Mellor '“There are not many men who are practising. They tend to hold more onto the culture”: British Pakistani Women, Islamic Piety and Family'
- Caroline Osella, 'Kerala Muslim Marriage, Intimacy and Gendering as Produced through Islamic Reformism, Transnational Connections and Neoliberalism.'
- Sean McLoughlin, 'Islam, Muslim Societies and the Study of Religion & Identity in Diasporas.'
- Shelley Feldman, 'Closing Comments.'
A selection of these papers is being published as a special issue of Culture and Religion (Vol. 13, No. 2, June 2012).
Page revised 29 April 2012
by Geoffrey Samuel.