Women and Islam
Based on a field survey where ethnographic observations were combined with semi-structured interviews conducted among Muslim women from Lebanon living in Montreal, this article attempts to show how these women live and assert themselves as Muslim in a multiplicity of ways. These women’s relationship to Islam does not obey one single model since they do not follow prescribed rituals in a uniform manner. Also, the strong sense of religiosity observed among many of them, as well as a generalized sentiment of belonging to Islam, does not correspond to a religious awakening nor to an identity revival, but rather to the continuity of religious identity.