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Guzik, Elysia.

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Informing Identities: Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Informing Identities: Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area./
Author:	Guzik, Elysia.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	252 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	Information science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10258452
ISBN:	9780355445404

Informing Identities: Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area.
Guzik, Elysia.

Informing Identities: Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 252 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2017.

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the ways in which information seeking, evaluation, and sharing practices mediate the conversion experiences of Muslims living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). This research contributes to Information Studies and interdisciplinary literature on conversion by adding insight into information practice in a religious context, particularly one that is characterized by a critical transition and situated within a contentious political landscape.

ISBN: 9780355445404Subjects--Topical Terms:

554358
Information science.

Informing Identities: Religious Conversion Experiences of Muslims in the Toronto Area.
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