Women and Religion is a very complex topic and is different for every religion and personal experience. Two memoir that were assigned throughout the semester show personal stories of women trying to find their place within their religion or religions. Other readings that related to these two personal stories are about veiling and how society is taking a view and a market on veiling of Muslim women within the western culture and within Islam.
The first memoir that was assigned within class was titled The book of mormon girl written by Joanna Brooks. Joanna gives an insight into a religion that not many within the western culture know about, mormonism. Her personal experience is interesting because she does not know her place within her mormon …show more content…
Within Shepard’s book she talks about her personal experience of trying to find how she fits into all of the religions that make up her blend family. This memoir Shepard at a young age finds out about all of the different religions that make up her family. Her mother originally practiced Judaism but converted to Muslim for marriage. Her mother is muslim and her father is jewish. Shepard struggles to find out about all the religions to decided which one she wants to identify with or how to practice all of these religions. Both of these women within the memoirs is trying to find their place within religion. Joanna’s experience relates to Shepard's experience because they both have blended families at some point within their lives and are struggling to maintain their religion or all their religions. Both of these women eventually find their place and stay true to their faiths that they hold …show more content…
This article talks about fashion designers making a market for women who veil. The companies have a fashion show that only certain women are allowed within because they only want to appeal to Muslim women. This article and a few others that explain how the fashion industry is making a market for Muslim women clothing and that more modest clothing is begin to integrate itself into the western culture for non Muslim women. This idea that the fashion industry has is a great one because Muslim women who veil should have options as well on what they can wear with different colors and
The first memoir that was assigned within class was titled The book of mormon girl written by Joanna Brooks. Joanna gives an insight into a religion that not many within the western culture know about, mormonism. Her personal experience is interesting because she does not know her place within her mormon …show more content…
Within Shepard’s book she talks about her personal experience of trying to find how she fits into all of the religions that make up her blend family. This memoir Shepard at a young age finds out about all of the different religions that make up her family. Her mother originally practiced Judaism but converted to Muslim for marriage. Her mother is muslim and her father is jewish. Shepard struggles to find out about all the religions to decided which one she wants to identify with or how to practice all of these religions. Both of these women within the memoirs is trying to find their place within religion. Joanna’s experience relates to Shepard's experience because they both have blended families at some point within their lives and are struggling to maintain their religion or all their religions. Both of these women eventually find their place and stay true to their faiths that they hold …show more content…
This article talks about fashion designers making a market for women who veil. The companies have a fashion show that only certain women are allowed within because they only want to appeal to Muslim women. This article and a few others that explain how the fashion industry is making a market for Muslim women clothing and that more modest clothing is begin to integrate itself into the western culture for non Muslim women. This idea that the fashion industry has is a great one because Muslim women who veil should have options as well on what they can wear with different colors and