Researching Moslem-Christian marriages : extrapolating from mixed-faith couples towards the practices of Convivencia
Ata, Abe and Furlong, Mark 2005, Researching Moslem-Christian marriages : extrapolating from mixed-faith couples towards the practices of Convivencia, Australian and New Zealand journal of family therapy, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 200-209.
Australian and New Zealand journal of family therapy
Volume number
26
Issue number
4
Start page
200
End page
209
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge, U. K.
Publication date
2005-12
ISSN
0814-723X 1467-8438
Summary
Moslem–Christian marriage can be seen as a kind of ‘testing place’ for examining and appreciating the practices of difference. This article offers a summary from a recent local research project which investigated these relationships (Ata, 2003). The empirical data from the study was ‘milled’ for its potential to inform practice, a process that generated four themes that practitioners may find useful in their attempts to design practice approaches that are sensitive to alternative anthropologies. Beginning from the contention that the otherness of those for whom we work can be a mirror for our own cultural and practice assumptions, we extrapolate from these themes to practise with other examples of diversity. It is argued that our efforts to practise with diverse populations will be unengaging, even colonising, unless we are able to denaturalise our own positions.
Language
eng
Field of Research
169999 - Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective
970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
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