Counting<i>niqabs</i>and<i>burqas</i>in Denmark: Methodological Aspects of Quantifying Rare and Elusive Religious Sub-cultures

Warburg, Margit; Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern; Østergaard, Kate

doi:10.1080/13537903.2013.750834

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“…The wearing of niqab is not the norm for Muslim women living in Western societies. According to Warburg et al (2013), some Muslim women in the West wear the niqab only at certain festive occasions and/ or during certain periods of time. Many Muslim women in the United States prefer not to wear niqab: a recent survey conducted at the University of Michigan (Poushter, 2014) reported that the vast majority of the participants from Muslim-majority home countries (the exception being Saudi Arabia) preferred hijab over burqa and niqab.…”

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Exploring the Meanings ofHijabthrough Online Comments in Canada

Rahman

Fung

Yeo

2016

Journal of Intercultural Communication Research

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Exploring the Meanings ofHijabthrough Online Comments in Canada

Rahman

Fung

Yeo

2016

Journal of Intercultural Communication Research

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“…prevalence in Sweden is limited, but suggests a figure of about 100 women (Gardell, 2011, p. 179; see also Warburg, Schepelern Johansen, & Ostergaard, 2013). About half are second-generation immigrants born and/or raised in Sweden, while the others are Swedish converts to Islam.…”

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Sweden’s Burka Ban: Policy Proposals, Problematisations, and the Production of Swedishness

Frisk

Gillette

2019

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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Between February 2002 and November 2018, Swedish politicians from the Centre, Christian Democrat, Moderate, Liberal and Sweden Democrat parties proposed policies to ban clothing variously referred to as the "burka," "fullcovering veil," "face veil" and "niqab" (Arabic for face veil) at least 38 times, six at the national level and thirty-two at the municipal. Research suggests that circa 100 women in Sweden wear a "burka"; clearly these policy proposals have little to do with the burka's prevalence. What, then, do these policy proposals attempt to govern? In this text we adopt feminist political scientist Carol Bacchi's "what is the problem represented to be?" approach to analyse Swedish bills to regulate the burka. These policy proposals, we contend, have more to do with conceptualizing Swedishness than addressing an existing "problem" of women who wear burka.

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Changing World Religion Map: Status, Literature and Challenges

Brunn

2014

The Changing World Religion Map

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Countingniqabsandburqasin Denmark: Methodological Aspects of Quantifying Rare and Elusive Religious Sub-cultures

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Exploring the Meanings ofHijabthrough Online Comments in Canada

Exploring the Meanings ofHijabthrough Online Comments in Canada

Sweden’s Burka Ban: Policy Proposals, Problematisations, and the Production of Swedishness

Changing World Religion Map: Status, Literature and Challenges

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