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Politics of Piety : The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform move...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mahmood, Saba
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE 2012 EDITION; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION; CHAPTER 1 The Subject of Freedom; CHAPTER 2 Topography of the Piety Movement; CHAPTER 3 Pedagogies of Persuasion; CHAPTER 4 Positive Ethics and Ritual Conventions; CHAPTER 5 Agency, Gender, and Embodiment; EPILOGUE; GLOSSARY OF COMMONLY USED ARABIC TERMS; REFERENCES; INDEX.