The Construction of Muslim Families, Interfaith Marriage, and Religious Education in Mexico
The Construction of Muslim Families, Interfaith Marriage, and Religious Education in Mexico
- Ruth Jatziri García LinaresRuth Jatziri García LinaresFaculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM, https://unam1.academia.edu/Garc%C3%ADaRuth
Summary
Fieldwork conducted in the Islamic Center of the North (Centro Islámico del Norte, or CIN) in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, between 2015 and 2017, yielded several findings. First, it examined the reasons for women’s conversion to Islam; second, it looked at the ways these women and their husbands raise their children under Islamic religious precepts. Thus, the author seeks to shed light on how this conversion and child-rearing take place within both Muslim and interfaith homes, dividing her discussion into three parts. The first contextualizes the women and men who make up these families and households and also discusses the Muslim community settled in Monterrey, of which they are members. The second provides an outline of interreligious and Islamic marriages, as well as what Islam has to say about marriage between Muslims and people of other religious faiths. The last section consists of a series of examples taken from interviews with Muslim women who are members of the CIN in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. The narratives provide insight into how religious values are transmitted to children and young people, as well as the ways in which marriages initially considered interreligious sometimes become completely Islamic.
Subjects
- Islamic Studies
- Religion in America
- Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology of Religion