Babes-Bolyai University

Graduate Student, Faculty of European Studies http://www.euro.ubbcluj.ro/

Other Affiliations: Tilburg University, Babylon, Center for Studies of the Multicultural Society

PhD student

Babes-Bolyai University

Thesis Title: The Islam Conversion Experience of Romanian and Dutch Women

About

I am a postgraduate student of Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), working on a PhD thesis concerning the Islam conversion experience of Romanian and Dutch women, in joint supervision with Tilburg University (Netherlands).
My research is conducted in a comparative perspective, investigating women converts’ perspectives on knowledge, spirituality, and corporeality, as well the conversion patterns resulting from their accounts.
I have a Bachelor degree in Journalism and a Master degree in Gender Studies.
My professional background is media/communication.

Publications:
Stoica, Daniela. 2011. “New Romanian Muslimas. Converted women sharing knowledge in online and offline communities”. In  Katarzyna Gorak-Sosnowska (ed.), Muslims in Poland and Eastern Europe: Widening the European Discourse on Islam. Warsaw: University of Warsaw. Faculty of Oriental Studies.
Stoica, Daniela. 2011. “Romanian Women Constructing Muslim Biographies. The Feminine Experience of Islam Conversion” Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Studia Europaea 56 (3): 64-93.

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