Religion, Sexual Ethics and the Politics of Belonging: Young Muslims and Christians in the Netherlands

This article offers a comparative study of everyday sexual ethics among Dutch Sunni Muslim and evangelical Christian young adults, both those born into religious families and those converted later in life. In European public debates, the sexual values of observant Christians and – especially – observant Muslims, are commonly understood to deviate from progressive norms. Particularly for Muslims, this has become a ground for questioning their belonging to the moral nation. Our ethnographic analysis complicates these conventional representations, which are partly reflected in quantitative survey... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Beekers, Daan
Schrijvers, L.L.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Schlagwörter: Sexuality / Islam / Christianity / Young adults / the Netherlands / Comparison
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/395139