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Politics of piety, by saba mahmood, is an ethnographic account of womens participation in the islamic revival movement in cairo, egypt. The islamic revival and the feminist subject kindle edition by mahmood, saba. On critiques of liberal autonomy and the sovereign individual prof judith butler 2015 duration. Yet, over the course of two years listening to and learning from several religious revival groups run by daiyat female callers, she discovered an entirely different understanding of religious devotion. Topography of the piety movement hajja faiza gives lessons in two other mosques, as well as in orie of the pri vate elite clubs of cairo. Politics of piety the islamic revival and the feminist.
Pdf on aug 3, 2010, sindre bangstad and others published book. Part of the aim of the mosque movementis to restore this understanding of worship by teaching women the requisite skills involved in its practice. Puja and piety by pratapaditya pal hardcover university. I coauthored a book on religious freedom rights in 1995 for an academic press, but this is my first foray into solo book publishing with a major firm. London publishing partnership a better politics danny dorling. Drawing upon the ethnographic field work on the urban womens mosque movement in cairo, egypt 19957, mahmood.
Politics of piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism. However, public reactions to these gestures varied significantly. Since the nations founding, that nervousness has manifest itself in periodic redrawing of the boundary between church and state and in practices that compromise the wall of separation. In politics of piety, mahmood argues that assumptions embedded within the feminist theory and secular liberal politics are insufficient to explain womens participation in religious revival movements. Mcworld, revivalism, clinging to guns or religion 11122010.
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Female piety and the concept of agency sarah bracke, visiting assistant professor of womens studies and sociology of religion and wsrp research associate at. Politics of piety is a groundbreaking analysis of islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots womens piety movement in the mosques of cairo, egypt. Saba mahmood politics of piety ill quote and paraphrase the key parts of the introduction, which lays out the important theoretical ground. Saba mahmood politics of piety is a groundbreaking analysis of islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots womens piety movement in the mosques of cairo, egypt.