Abstract
As a researcher on a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, I conducted participant observation in two Swiss mosques. I attended events such as Friday prayers, courses for converts, lecture evenings, Iftar meals, celebrations of the mosque school and others; the result of this effort is recorder in over 100 field notes. In addition, 16 semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with believers from the two mosques in question. I use my data to define “morality” and “good values” as seen in this micro-context. I then present how the state of morality in Switzerland (partly also Europe) is seen within the two mosques. Spotlights, such as the topics of clothing and sexuality/marriage, deepen the microscopic view. Finally, the results are placed in a larger (also theoretical) framework.
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Mathieu Cudré MaurouxPhD Student, Chair of Comparative Religious History and Interreligious Dialogue, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Islam, Switzerland, Participant Observation, Microscopic Analysis, Values and Morality
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