Other Outputs

Conference and Seminar papers

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey. 2008. 'The New Islamic Family: The Appeal of an Ideal', in the Lived Islam in Contemporary South Asia Panel at the 20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Manchester, July 8th-11th, 2008.

Rozario, Santi. 2008. 'Young Bangladeshis and the Islamic Family: Conflicting Ideals,' at How Fares the Family? An International Conference on Resilience and Transformation of Families in Asia held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, on 4th to 5th August 2008. Revised version presented at the Symposium on Women, Islam and Social Inclusion, University of Newcastle, 8th August 2008

Rozario, Santi. 2009. 'Secularism or Islamic Modernism? Young Bangladeshis in the UK and in Bangladesh.' Paper presented at Joint Spring Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion/Society for Psychological Anthropology Moments Of Crisis: Decision, Transformation, Catharsis, Critique), March 27-29, 2009, Asilomar, California. Revised version (with Geoffrey Samuel) presented at Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions, 2009 CRONEM Conference, June 11-12, 2009, Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, University of Surrey.

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey.. 2009. 'The Sufi Mazar as A Heterotopic Space', invited presentation for Prayer in the City: Islam, Sacred Spaces and Urban Life workshop, 26-27 June 2009, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies/FU Berlin.

Rozario, Santi. 2009. 'Islamic Piety Against the Family.' Paper for panel, 'Islamic Piety and Gender Relationships among Contemporary Muslims,' at the Australian Anthropological Society conference, Dec 2009. Also presented as 'Islamic Piety Against the Family: From “Traditional” to “Pure” Islam' as a public lecture at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Western Sydney, 21 September 2010

Samuel, Geoffrey. 2009. 'Islamic Piety and Masculinity.' Paper for Australian Anthropological Society panel on 'Islamic Piety and Gender Relationships among Contemporary Muslims,' at the Australian Anthropological Society conference, Dec 2009.

Rozario, Santi 'Islamic Marriage: A Haven in an Uncertain World.' Paper presented at Finding Muslim Partners, Building Islamic Lives conference; also presented at the University of Surrey (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) on 15 November 2010. Revised versions also presented at Islam, Love and Marriage: New Choices for a New World (see below), at the Gender and Religion in the Public Domain Workshop, University of Newcastle, Australia, 4-6 February 2011, and at the IOSARN workshop, Post-colonialism, Religion, Gender and Ethics: Rethinking Paradigms and Boundaries, University of Technology, Sydney, 10 February 2011.

Samuel, Geoffrey. 2010. Paper, 'Modernist Islam in Bangladesh and the UK: The Background to Our Study' at Finding Muslim Partners conference (see above).

Samuel, Geoffrey and Rozario, Santi. 2010. Paper, 'Contesting Science for Islam: The Media as a Source of Revisionist Knowledge in the Lives of Young Bangladeshis'. Studies in Religion Seminar, University of Sydney, Aug 3, 2010


Edited Special Journal Issues

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey (eds.) 2011. Special issue of Contemporary Islam, 'Islamic Piety and Gender Relationships among Contemporary Muslims,'vol.5 no. 3, pp.219-322.

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey (eds.) 2012. Special issue of Culture and Religion, 'Finding Muslim Partners, Building Islamic Lives: Young South Asian Muslims At Home and in the Diaspora,' vol.13 no.2, pp.137-272.


Refereed Journal Articles

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey. 2010. 'Contesting Science for Islam: The Media as a Source of Revisionist Knowledge in the Lives of Young Bangladeshis.' Contemporary South Asia vol.18 no.4 (Dec. 2010), pp.427-441. (Special issue, South Asian Media in the Noughties, edited by Marta Bolognani.)

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey. 2011. 'Introduction.' In special issue of Contemporary Islam, (vol.5, no.3), 'Islamic Piety and Gender Relationships among Contemporary Muslims,' edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel, pp.219-223.

Rozario, Santi. 2011. 'Islamic Piety against the Family: Journey from 'Cultural' Islam to 'Pure' Islam.' In special issue of Contemporary Islam, (vol.5, no.3), 'Islamic Piety and Gender Relationships among Contemporary Muslims,' edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel,pp.285-308.

Samuel, Geoffrey. 2011. 'Islamic Piety and Masculinity.' In special issue of Contemporary Islam, (vol.5, no.3), 'Islamic Piety and Gender Relationships among Contemporary Muslims,' edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel,pp.309-322.

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey. 2012. 'Introduction: Finding Muslim Partners, Building Islamic Lives.' In special issue of Culture and Religion, (vol. 13, no.2), 'Finding Muslim Partners, Building Islamic Lives: Young South Asian Muslims At Home and in the Diaspora,' edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel.pp.137-140

Samuel, Geoffrey. 2012. 'Islam and the Family in Bangladesh and the UK: The Background to Our Study.' In special issue of Culture and Religion, (vol. 13, no.2), 'Finding Muslim Partners, Building Islamic Lives: Young South Asian Muslims At Home and in the Diaspora,' edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel.pp.141-158.

Rozario, Santi. 2012,. 'Islamic Marriage: Haven in an Uncertain World.' In special issue of Culture and Religion, (vol. 13, no.2), 'Finding Muslim Partners, Building Islamic Lives: Young South Asian Muslims At Home and in the Diaspora,' edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel, pp.159-175.


Book Chapters

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey. 2012. 'Sufi Spaces in Urban Bangladesh: Gender and Modernity in Contemporary Shrine Culture.' (with Santi Rozario) in Prayer in the City. The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life (ed. Patrick A. Desplat and Dorothea E. Schulz), pp.289-309. Bielefeld: Transcript..

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey. 2012, in press. 'Islam, Love and Marriage: Explorations among Young British Muslims.' In Yearbook of Muslims in Europe 2012 (ed. Jørgen S. Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibasic, Brigitte Maréchal and Egdunas Racius). Leiden: Brill. To appear 2012.

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey. 2012, in press. 'Young Bangladeshi Women and the Islamic Family: Conflicting Ideals.' In Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research (ed. Terence Lovat). Berlin: Springer. To appear June 2012.


Online Report

Rozario, Santi and Samuel, Geoffrey. 2011. 'Islam, Love and Marriage: New Choices for a New World. Findings from a Research project on Young Bangladeshis in Bangladesh and the UK.' (Revised version, 15 March 2011.)

The report is also available in a Bangla (Bengali language) version.


Page revised 15 May 2012
by Geoffrey Samuel.