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This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium. Kayikci draws on a wealth of interview material that sheds light on the ethical turn in the anthropology of Islam, exploring how volunteering enables the space and time for Muslim women to commit to both orthodox religious and civic social values. As volunteering and interacting (caring) with the society requires careful deliberation of their society and their position as Muslims, and as women in that society, this research unpacks how multiple belongings of Muslim women in Belgium are negotiated, balanced, and influenced. This analysis reveals how the everyday is informed by different epistemological traditions; both the liberal and the Islamic, and how these traditions make the life-worlds of the women. Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering will be of interest to academics across religious studies, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and community studies, especially scholars working in the areas of ethics, migration, Muslims in Europe, volunteering and activism. Merve Reyhan Kayikci is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Granada, Spain. She is also an affiliated staff member in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Religious studies --- Islam --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- etnologie --- religie --- sociologie --- schrijfvaardigheid --- Islam

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This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium. Kayikci draws on a wealth of interview material that sheds light on the ethical turn in the anthropology of Islam, exploring how volunteering enables the space and time for Muslim women to commit to both orthodox religious and civic social values. As volunteering and interacting (caring) with the society requires careful deliberation of their society and their position as Muslims, and as women in that society, this research unpacks how multiple belongings of Muslim women in Belgium are negotiated, balanced, and influenced. This analysis reveals how the everyday is informed by different epistemological traditions; both the liberal and the Islamic, and how these traditions make the life-worlds of the women. Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering will be of interest to academics across religious studies, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and community studies, especially scholars working in the areas of ethics, migration, Muslims in Europe, volunteering and activism. Merve Reyhan Kayikci is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Granada, Spain. She is also an affiliated staff member in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Islam --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of religion --- Belgium --- Women volunteers --- Voluntarism --- Religious life --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Women volunteers - Religious life - Belgium. --- Voluntarism - Religious aspects - Islam. --- Religion and sociology. --- Ethnology. --- Women. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Social Anthropology. --- Women's Studies.

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“The words Islam and volunteering rarely go in tandem, especially in the West. This book proves how wrong we are. From Australia to America, the chapters demonstrate the scope and intricacies of Muslim diaspora volunteering. A must read for anyone interested in the intersection of religion and volunteering.” — Ram A. Cnaan, Professor and Director, Program for Religion and Social Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania, USA “This book identifies the ways in which religious Muslimness is akin to participatory citizenship in the secular sense. The collection is a significant contribution to a discussion in relation to the norms and values that Muslims derive from readings within Islam.”—Tahir Abbas, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Netherlands “This volume opens an important conversation on the nature and multiple ethical configurations of Islamic volunteering in the West, as it is caught between various political, secular and security constraints. The contributions offer important insights into how Muslim activists navigate these different constraints, thereby raising important questions on citizenship, solidarity and ethical self-making.” —Nadia Fadil, Associate Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium This edited volume explores various facets of Muslims’ civic engagement in Western post-secular societies, fundamentally challenging simplistic boundaries between Islamic ethical conduct and liberal-democratic norms and practice. Bringing together scholars from sociology, anthropology, and Islamic theology, the collection offers sound theoretical and empirical elaborations on the complex ways in which Islamic piety, principles and norms interact with, and shape, Muslims’ everyday practice of volunteering as a performance of active citizenship in liberal societies. The contributions cover diverse manifestations of Muslim volunteering in North America, Europe and Australia, from environmentalism to mental health volunteering, and critically examine the national and global socio-political context within which certain forms of Muslims’ civic engagement are viewed with skepticism and suspicion. It will be of use to students and scholars across sociology, political science, community studies and Islamic studies, with a focus on migrant integration, diaspora studies, and inter-ethnic relations.

Religious studies --- Sociology --- Migration. Refugees --- Public administration --- religie --- sociologie --- burgerschap --- migratie (mensen)

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Debates about the compatibility of Islam with Western values have extensively encompassed women. Europe today supports a vast population of Muslim women, who may or may not be visible and may or may not be practicing, but experience the implications of their identities in their everyday life. In turn, this research contributes to the debate of how Muslim women handle these implications, not from the perspective of the larger society but rather from the Muslim perspective. Based on the ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with fifteen members of the Golden Rose womens association the thesis aims to study how Turkish Muslim women construct a multileveled identity. It focuses on how they maintain their piety and modernity, in relation to the secular modern European discourse. The research studies three levels of identity construction. These parts are gender, piety, and national belonging which all form a hybrid social imaginary. I refer to these levels of identity as social imaginaries, because how they define their own selfŽ is how my interlocutors construct the world around them and expect that world to be. This research studies the different tactics my interlocutors resort to when their social imaginaries are challenged by the society. It finds that in order to represent their multi-layered identities and receive recognition from the larger public my interlocutors resort to faith based social activism. They use Golden Rose as a space to exchange information, reaffirm their identities, and negotiate their tactics to overcome those challenges.