Actual Problems of Non-Ethnic Muslim Women in Regions with a Muslim Minority (on the example of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region)
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2021-14-1-226-248
Abstract
The article presents the results of a socio-psychological study conducted in St. Petersburg and in the Leningrad Region. The main objectives of the research were: to understand the reasons of why women adopted Islam in regions with a Muslim minority, to identify the features of the adapting process itself in accordance with a new religious identity and to investigate the specifi cs and solutions of the problems they faced. We used the method of qualitative (in-depth) unstructured biographical interviews and a modifi cation of a “Who am I” test by Kuhn-McPartland. The article describes the study structure, reveals the regional features of its implementation and also names the socio-religious specifi cs of the groups under study. All the urgent problems of non-ethnic Muslim women can be classifi ed into the so-called general problems relating to adaptation to a new religious identity and specifi c ones relating to the features of the region. Specifi c problems are: the issues connected with employment and education, wearing hij ab, with religious practices outside home, children halal nutrition, acceptance of a woman’s religious choice by the closest people, and also the diffi culties connected with marriage, social insecurity and socializing in Muslim community. Based on the analysis of the above-mentioned problems the ways of solving them are outlined.
About the Author
L. D. Suyunova
Russian Islamic Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lada D. Suyunova, Master of Theology, Member of the Association for psychological assistance to Muslims; editorin-chief of «Alif» Publishing House
Moscow;
Каzan
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Suyunova L.D. Actual Problems of Non-Ethnic Muslim Women in Regions with a Muslim Minority (on the example of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region). Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2021;14(1):226-248. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2021-14-1-226-248
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