Gender practices and relations at the Jamaat al Muslimeen in Trinidad
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Jeanne P. Baptiste
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Busia, Abena P.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
268
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Text of Note
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-60081-9
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Graduate School - New Brunswick
Body granting the degree
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
Text preceding or following the note
2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In an effort to bring into view critically-as actors rather than as spectacle-Muslim men and especially Muslim women in non-Islamic countries and to examine their constitutive individual as well as collective religious and social identities-that is their contextual realities as opposed to just the ideal of Islam-this project seeks via ethnographic research to investigate gender practices and relations among Muslims at the Masjid al Muslimeen and Madressa located in Trinidad and Tobago. This small community's mundane yet resilient existence amid national, global, historical, geographical, physical, and sociopolitical ambivalences and contradictions begs revisiting how we read, interpret, represent, and deploy extant categories, theories, and methodologies articulating gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, and nation.