An enchanted modern : gender and public piety in Shi'i Lebanon

An enchanted modern : gender and public piety in Shi'i Lebanon / Lara Deeb.

"Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernit...

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Main Author: Deeb, Lara, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Series:Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
Subjects:
Shiites > Lebanon > Beirut.
Islam and politics > Lebanon > Beirut.
Women in Islam > Lebanon > Beirut.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Islam and politics
Shiites
Women in Islam
Frömmigkeit
Schiitin
Öffentlichkeit
Sjiʻisme.
Moderniteit.
Chiites > Liban > Beyrouth (Liban)
Islam et politique > Liban > Beyrouth (Liban)
Femmes dans l'islam > Liban > Beyrouth (Liban)
Kvinnor och islam > Libanon > Beirut.
Islam och politik > Libanon > Beirut.
Lebanon > Beirut
Libanon
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Encounters, approaches, spaces. moments. Introduction: Pious and/as/is modern
  • Al-Dahiyya : sight, sound, season
  • From marginalization to institutionalization. Part II: Living an enchanted modern. The visibility of religion in daily life
  • Ashura : authentication and sacrifice
  • Community commitment
  • Public piety as women's Jihād
  • The pious modern ideal and its gaps.

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