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‪Starting in the 1960s, Muslims in Switzerland have tended to organize themselves in the local community landscape. Their practices shed light on the way in which religious norms and prescriptions are transmitted in the context of schools and Muslim women's associations active in the Canton of Geneva. These practices encourage actresses to emerge on the public stage and propose alternative trajectories of modernity and citizen engagement. Oriented sometimes to a transformation of the self, sometimes to a status of world changer, actresses combine gender and religion in a system of intervention and specific subjectivation. By cultivating a “virtuous sorority” bond within their group and embracing the principles of Montessori pedagogy, these young women create a mismatch with both secular liberal values that “the ability to act” would require breaking with belief and with Muslim normativity based on the learning of texts.‪