Crossing sexual barriers: Predictors of sexual guilt and sexual anxiety among young Canadian and American Muslim adults

This introductory chapter presents three vignettes that illustrate the four narratives that frame this book: the notion of an identity crisis among young Muslims, the purported conflict between a “pure or true” Islam and a “cultural” Islam, an alleged “Islamization of America,” and the imperative for creating an American Muslim community and culture. It also sketches the methodology employed in the book, detailing the centrality of a narrative framework from the inception of this project to its methods, the challenges encountered, the analysis, and ultimately to the production of this ethnographic narrative. This beginning chapter argues that narrative is a particularly useful way to examine identity.

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The Second Wave

10.1093/oso/9780190852603.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Harold D. Morales

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Support Group ◽

Historical Context ◽

Study Group ◽

Internet Technologies ◽

American Muslim ◽

Latino American ◽

Second Wave

Chapter 2 examines a second Latino Muslim wave consisting of prominent organizations like PIEDAD (a Piety women’s group), the Latino American Dawah Organization (LADO), and the Los Angeles Latino Muslim Association (LALMA). PIEDAD was founded in 1988 as a support group by and for women in Florida. LADO was founded in 1997 as a network for the dissemination of Islamic information to Latino audiences via Internet technologies. LALMA was founded in 1999 as a Qur’anic study group in Los Angeles. All three organizations were inspired by the work and stories developed by the Alianza Islámica but also moved away from the first Latino Muslim paradigm in unique ways. The new organizations concentrated almost exclusively on the production and study of information, they worked within rather than autonomously from broader American Muslim groups, and they developed within a distinct historical context.

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American Muslim Physician Attitudes Toward Organ Donation

Journal of Religion and Health ◽

10.1007/s10943-018-0683-2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 57 (5) ◽

pp. 1717-1730 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mustafa Ahmed ◽

Paul Kubilis ◽

Aasim Padela

Keyword(s):

Organ Donation ◽

Physician Attitudes ◽

American Muslim

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A sexual-enhancement workshop: Beyond group systematic desensitization for women's sexual anxiety

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy ◽

10.1080/00926237708402992 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 249-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Wayne M. Sotile ◽

Peter Kilmann ◽

Diane R. Follingstad

Keyword(s):

Systematic Desensitization ◽

Sexual Anxiety

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Sexual Intimacy and Replacement Children after the Death of a Child

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/rxb2-9jgg-r9kc-q1w7 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 109-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Sherry Johnson

Keyword(s):

Sexual Intercourse ◽

Sexual Intimacy ◽

Preparation Time ◽

Sexual Guilt ◽

Death Of A Child ◽

Replacement Child ◽

Child's Death ◽

Specific Reason

The stress on couples who have a child die is tremendous. Fourteen couples who had a short or long preparation time for their child's death were interviewed. All parents expressed guilt. It was also discovered that because of this grief and the accompanying guilt, sexual intercourse was performed only by three couples within the first three days after the death, with sexual guilt occurring with one couple. Hugging and being held, however, became a comforting behavior found in all but one couple. This behavior was a new experience for the men. Although sex was perceived as undesirable, it was again initiated for a specific reason: to produce a replacement child. Although the literature indicates that replacement children could be potentially pathological, the question arises whether a replacement child could be a “normal” need for parents of childbearing years.

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