Pratiche religiose e religiosità delle donne musulmane nei luoghi di preghiera

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Pratiche religiose e religiosità delle donne musulmane nei luoghi di preghiera

PROF.SSA ROSA PARISI, Università del Salento, Lecce (Italia)

The growth of Islam in Italy, second among religions after Christianity in terms of number of adherents, is undoubtedly linked to the phenomenon of migration, as well as that of conversions. As far as migration is concerned, there has been a significant increase in the presence of women, due to family reunifications, but also to the growth in the number of women with independent migration projects, from Arab and Muslim countries. Regarding conversions, studies on the subject tell us that more than 50 percent of converts to Islam are women. Current prejudices and stereotypes deem Muslim women to be silent subjects, closed within their domestic walls; the reality, vice versa, often returns a very different situation: active women, protagonists of their choices, engaged in the construction of an open Islam, capable of activating paths of insertion in the host society, capable of renewing themselves in doctrinal and ethical aspects, capable of producing memberships not necessarily closed in national origins but increasingly turned to Italian society. The emergence of women in the Muslim religious space transforms practices, rituals, symbolic and ethical horizons, as well as the relations between private/intentional and communal dimensions of religious experience, activates pathways of subjectification and agentivity of women believers, and ultimately questions us about our relationship with Islam, in particular the way in which the gender question and the national dimension is constructed and conceptualized. 

Beginning with the reconstruction of the stories of the religious experience of five Muslim women, three immigrants and two converts, I will attempt to highlight how through ritual performances, interpretation of sacred texts, enhancement of the ethical dimension of religion, as well as through everyday experiences outside the strictly religious dimension, new public subjectivities, new dynamics of constructing belonging, and new symbolic and cultural horizons within which to rewrite the relationship between the intimate and communal dimensions of Islam are produced.

Date: Mar 6, 2023
Hours: From 17:00 To 18:30
Organizer: Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies
Category: Christianity and Asian religions and culture forum
Room: 007 - Frascara
Venue:

Pontificia Università Gregoriana
Piazza della Pilotta, 4
I-00187 Roma

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