Muslim Families in North America
- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888642257
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
This collection explores issues of adaptation between Islam and North American culture, including the dynamics of the family, strategies for coping, the influence of an alien environment upon believers, and the role of women in an Islamic setting.
About the authors
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Earle H. Waugh is a professor of religious studies at the University of Alberta. He is the co-editor of Native Religious Traditions (WLU Press), and the author of The Munshidin of Egypt: Their World and Their Song and the Alberta Elders’ Cree Dictionary).
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