The construction of muslim gender identities—A structured content analysis of friday sermons from the Turkish-Islamic organization DITIB in Germany

Abstract This article examines the construction of Muslim gender identities through a structured content analysis of Friday sermons from the Turkish-Islamic organization DITIB in Germany. The analysis highlights how gender roles and family structures are discursively produced and theologically legitimized in the sermons. The analysis shows how sermons discursively stabilize community-specific norms through theological legitimation. While the sermons emphasize spiritual equality between men and women, they also promote a binary construction of gender roles that align men with breadwinning and protection duties, and women with motherhood and familial care. The article interprets these findings using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the religious field, exploring the power dynamics that reinforce traditional gender roles within the mosque setting and the community.