Finding Your Own Voice A field study focusing on how young, highly educated Dutch Turkish women participating in Diyanet activities form their voices in discussions of multiculturalism, gender roles in Islam, and political Islam

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reveal how young, highly educated Dutch Turkish women participating in Diyanet create their voices in the debates on multiculturalism, political Islam and gender roles in Islam.The main question is how the position on gender role in Islam, multiculturalism, and the definition of Islam and political Islam may be understood in the construction of young Turkish educated Muslim women identities. I conducted interviews of six young Turkish women. This study revealed that moral religiosity was more dominant in the study group, and integration was the most desired form of multiculturalism. In addition, the thesis reveals that the moderate position, which emphasizes equal value for all, is the most dominant voice against the idea of gender equality and male supremacy in the gender roles in Islam debate.