Women in interfaith marriages and shifts in their religious identity
Vol.20,No.2(2022)
Abstract
Keywords:
mixed interfaith marriages; religious identity; strategies of interfaith marriages; religious education
Pages:
7–21
The article focuses on Christian-Muslim interfaith marriages from the perspective of Christian wives. Through biographical narrative interviews, this text follows two main themes, religious identity, and its transformations in narrative stories of these Christian women, and strategies of negotiating two religions within one marriage. The analysis of their religious identity shows changes of their religious practices and beliefs that occurred primarily before their marriage. It also shows that through bricolage their religious identity comprises the idea that Islam and Christianity have the same core, and therefore there is a need to overcome presumed religious differences by changing one's religious practices and beliefs. Strategies of negotiating religion became important primarily in the context of parenthood and, therefore, raising their children.
mixed interfaith marriages; religious identity; strategies of interfaith marriages; religious education
7–21
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