Global dynamics of Shi'a marriages : religion, gender, and belonging

Global dynamics of Shi'a marriages : religion, gender, and belonging / Yafa Shanneik and Annelies Moors.

Muslim marriages have been the focus of considerable public debate in Europe and beyond, in Muslim-majority countries as well as in settings where Muslims are a minority. Most academic work has focused on how the majority Sunni Muslims conclude marriages. This volume, in contrast, focuses on Twelver...

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Main Author: Shanneik, Yafa (Editor)
Other Authors: Moors, Annelies (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Series:Politics of marriage and gender: global issues in local contexts
Subjects:
Shiites > Marriage customs and rites.
Shi ah > Customs and practices.
Islamic marriage customs and rites.
Shi ah > Doctrines.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Islamic marriage customs and rites
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE Gender and Generation:
  • 1 Marriage Modifications in Aliabad: Social Change Overrides Clerical Directives
  • 2 The New Marital Romance: How Bollywood, Islamic Doctrines, and Mobile Phones Dissect the Imperative of Spouse Evasion
  • PART TWO Dower Practices:
  • 3 The Dower (Mahr) and Wedding Ceremony among the Shiʿa of Oman: Religion, Class, and Ethnicity
  • 4 Mahr Iranian Style in Norway: Negotiating Gender Equality and Religious and Cultural Belonging through Transnational Shiʿa Marriage Practices
  • PART THREE Temporary Marriage:
  • 5 Mutʿa Marriage among Youth in the Non-Shiʿi Environment of Indonesia
  • 6 Between Love and Sex, Modernity and Archaism: Iranian Students' Discourse in the Netherlands about Sigheh
  • 7 "Laboratory Sigheh": The (Dis)Entanglements of Temporary Marriage and Third-Party Donation in Iran
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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