Beyond the Traditional-Modern Binary: Faith and Identity in Muslim Women’s Online Matchmaking Profiles

Anna Piela

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    Abstract

    Finding a suitable partner in both diasporic and non-diasporic settings proves increasingly challenging for young Muslims, especially those unable or not wanting to search within their kinship networks. At the same time, religious matchmaking websites are becoming increasingly common especially among Muslim women. As studies of Muslim matchmaking sites tend to focus on the ever-popular topic of the headscarf and its associations in the matchmaking context, a much more comprehensive study of the specificity of the online religious identities and self-representation is required. This paper examines a number of profiles of young Muslim women using online matchmaking sites and discusses broad themes of faith, ethnicity and identity that emerge in the analysis.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number6219
    JournalCyberOrient
    Volume5
    Issue number1
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

    Keywords

    • Websites
    • Information and communication technology
    • Identity
    • Muslim women
    • Social aspects
    • Matchmaking

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