Submitting to God's will: Attitudes and beliefs of Moroccan Muslim women regarding mourning and remembrance.

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    • Subject Terms:
      AGE distribution; GRIEF; INTERVIEWING; ISLAM; LITERATURE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGY of women
    • Subject Terms:
      BELGIUM; MOROCCO
    • Abstract:
      This study aimed to elicit the attitudes and beliefs of middle-aged and elderly Moroccan Muslim women regarding mourning and remembrance, to identify whether differences are observable between middle-aged and elderly participants, to explore the role of religion and to document how the actual attitudes of our participants relate to normative Islamic literature. Interviews were conducted with middle-aged and elderly Moroccan women living in Belgium (n = 30) and with experts in the field (n = 15). This study reveals that the religious beliefs have a great impact on the views of Muslim women. We found striking similarities between our participants' views and normative Islamic literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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