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Informing Identities : = Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Informing Identities :/
其他題名:	Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area.
作者:	Guzik, Elysia.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (252 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
標題:	Information science. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355445404

Informing Identities : = Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area.
Guzik, Elysia.

Informing Identities :Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area. - 1 online resource (252 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the ways in which information seeking, evaluation, and sharing practices mediate the conversion experiences of Muslims living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). This research contributes to Information Studies and interdisciplinary literature on conversion by adding insight into information practice in a religious context, particularly one that is characterized by a critical transition and situated within a contentious political landscape.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355445404Subjects--Topical Terms:

561178
Information science.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a Findings are framed by three themes: navigation, authority, and expression; these themes correspond with the concepts of seeking, evaluating and sharing information. They describe participants' experiences of finding their way through new information systems and social networks; assessing sources' trust, relevance, and authenticity; and presenting religious commitments through their bodies, vocabulary, and creative pursuits. Findings suggest that rather than being peripheral to religious experience, information practice is integral to how participants develop their religious identities and articulate their connection to local and global Muslim communities. This study extends the idea that everyday information practices involve not only interactions with written documentary sources such as books, websites, and social media, but also embodied forms of expression such as clothing, movements, words, and verbal references to key issues and debates, historical moments, influential figures, social norms and activities in the communities with which people identify.
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