Women's Religious Radicalism in the Case of Biographical Narratives of Muslim Women in Modern Tatarstan
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2024-20-4-203-220
Abstract
The present article is devoted to how Muslim women who were members of Islamist organizations banned in Russia explain their path to Islam, and then the reason for their radicalization. The research paper also examines the self-positioning of Muslim women within the framework of the narrative that was received during our interview with them. In the article, the author argues that Muslim women assess themselves as reflective subjects who independently built their biography. The exception that violated this subjectivity was involvement in the activities of banned organizations, which, according to the Muslim women, took place under the influence of external causes.
Supporting agencies: The article was prepared under the state assignment № 0599–2019–0043 “The problem of deviant behaviour in the system of modern human science”.
About the Author
D. M. Garaev
The Kazan Branch of the Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Interdisciplinary Research
Russian Federation
Danis M. GARAEV, PhD in history, senior research fellow
Russian Federation
Danis M. GARAEV, PhD in history, senior research fellow
12, Isaeva Str., Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan
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Garaev D.M. Women's Religious Radicalism in the Case of Biographical Narratives of Muslim Women in Modern Tatarstan. Islam in the modern world. 2024;20(4):203-220. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2024-20-4-203-220
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