Fedwa Malti-Douglas
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520215931
- eISBN:
- 9780520924673
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520215931.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
In this volume, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by this book, the ...
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In this volume, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by this book, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and discourses of the body in Arabo-Islamic culture. At the center of each story is a lively female Islamic spirituality that questions secular hierarchies while reaffirming patriarchal ones.Less
In this volume, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by this book, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and discourses of the body in Arabo-Islamic culture. At the center of each story is a lively female Islamic spirituality that questions secular hierarchies while reaffirming patriarchal ones.
Carla Bellamy
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520262805
- eISBN:
- 9780520950450
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520262805.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious ...
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The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. This ethnography traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims' narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, the book considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. Grounded in stories from individual lives and experiences, the book offers not only a humane, readable portrait of dargah culture, but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India.Less
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. This ethnography traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims' narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, the book considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. Grounded in stories from individual lives and experiences, the book offers not only a humane, readable portrait of dargah culture, but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India.
Rhetorics of Self-Making
Respectable Lives
Counterplay
America and the Misshaping of a New World Order
Making Chastity Sexy
Image Brokers
Balancing on a Planet
Politicking and Emergent Media
From History to Theory
