Islam, Hijab and Young Shia Muslim Canadian Women’s Discursive Constructions of Physical Activity

“Disgusting” Fat Bodies & Young Lebanese-Canadian Women’s Discursive Constructions of Health

Using feminist poststructuralist and postcolonial lenses, we investigate how young Lebanese-Canadian women discursively construct health in the current context of a dominant obesity discourse. Participant-centered conversations on the topic of health were conducted with 20 young LebaneseCanadian women. Results attest that the participants construct health as a matter of physical appearance and ...

The Effects of Islam, Religiosity, and Socialization on Muslim-Canadian Opinions about Same-Sex Marriage

Critics of Islam often frame anti-Islamic positions as a defense of tolerance against intolerance, and of equality against inequality. Islam, for this perspective, poses challenges for the ideological integration of Muslim immigrants in Western societies. This paper examines Canadian Muslims’ opinions about same-sex marriage. The analysis suggests that Canadian Muslims, as a group, do have dist...

Living Islam in Non-Muslim Spaces

Media representations of Islam and international Muslim student well-being

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of British media representations of Islam. It offers a contribution to the literature on the international student sojourn by focusing on the unique experiences of the Muslim segment of that student body. International Muslim students perceived Muslim countries to be portrayed by the media as: (1) sympathetic to terrorism; (2) economically b...

Muslim Students in Adventist Schools and Islam in the Curriculum

slam and Christianity are today facing each other in a more hostile way than ever before. Recent events, including terrorist attacks, Western armies on Muslim soil, and the Israel/Palestinian conflict, have created a lot of enmity. Much has been said about these serious confrontations in the press, on TV, and in other media. Most of this is negative and colored by suspicion and mistrust on both...