Humanizing the Sacrid

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  • イスラームを人間化する
  • イスラームを人間化する : 多文化主義社会イギリスにおけるムスリム女性とヒジャブ
  • イスラーム オ ニンゲンカ スル : タブンカ シュギ シャカイ イギリス ニ オケル ムスリム ジョセイ ト ヒジャブ
  • Muslim Women and the Hijab in Britain as a Multicultural Society
  • 多文化主義社会イギリスにおけるムスリム女性とヒジャブ

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“Is multiculturalism bad for women?” This question is a fundamental criticism of multiculturalism. While recognising minority cultures which have been neglected in secularised modern regimes, multiculturalism is perceived to be suppressing individual freedoms through the cultural conventions to which it grants approval. Women are particularly vulnerable to becoming victims of such oppressive cultural conventions. However, young Muslim women in Britain have opinions contrary to this mainstream discourse about multiculturalism in contemporary Western society. They enjoy religious freedom and develop their religious knowledge in Britain’s multicultural society. It empowers them to research Islam with their own hands and make Islam adaptable to their lives in the Western world. In other words, they “humanise the sacred” by independently interpreting religious teachings to strike a balance between Islamic values and citizenship in the Western world. This paper investigates the important roles of multiculturalism in Muslim women’s engagement in the interpretative practice of Islam and their use of religious knowledge for their integration into Western society by analysing the attitudes of second-generation （and third-generation and so on） Muslim women in Britain regarding wearing or not wearing a hijab.

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