The Agency in Islam or (and) Human Rights? The Case of Pious Baltic Muslim Women

Author:

Vidūnaitė Morta1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Sociology, Vytautas Magnus University, LT-44248 Kaunas, Lithuania

Abstract

This article focuses on the variety of ways pious Muslim women exercise their agency to navigate between religion, gender, and human rights in the dynamic post-Soviet Baltic societies. It shows that these women primarily find agency not in human rights but in Islam as a religion that provides instruction on aspects of life related to human rights. They are empowered as individuals by Islam as the religion of their deliberate choice, which gives them meaning and guidance in life. They also find agency in their roles as wives and mothers as well as in the sisterhood of the Muslim community, while a career serves more as an area of personal autonomy and self-realization. This research is based on the analysis of qualitative data from semi-structured interviews conducted in 2021–2022. Baltic women’s narratives on human rights (and in the case of this research, specifically regarding gender and sexuality) and the role of Islam in their lives contributes to the redefinition of religious and secular concepts within a post-communist context and contributes to the wider scholarly debate on pious Muslim women living in non-Muslim democratic societies.

Funder

EEA Grants/Norway

Research Council of Lithuania

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Religious studies

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