Constructing Islamic Knowledge: Utilizing Psychology and Psychiatry in Islamic Discourses

Beskrivelse

In this paper, I showed how scientific knowledge from the fields of psychology and psychiatry is incorporated into Danish Muslim women’s Islamic knowledge construction and in the work to establish strong and resilient Muslim subjects.
I described how psychological and psychiatric knowledge can be invoked to work on the spiritual capacity of the human, just as the spiritual constitution of the individual influences her wellbeing.
Specific conceptions about the human constitution are articulated in relation to this. I argued that these have implications for the way we can understand and analyse the formation of subjectivity and agency, and that we might perceive of agency as something that is distributed and becomes articulated in specific intra-actions that include also otherworldly agents such as God.

Periode	31 aug. 2021
Begivenhedstitel	Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religion : Resilient Religion
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Pisa, ItalienVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	International