TY - BOOK ID - 6195322 TI - Politics of piety : the islamic revival and the feminist subject PY - 2012 SN - 9780691149806 0691149801 0691086958 069108694X 9780691086941 9780691086958 PB - New Jersey Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Feminism KW - Muslim women KW - Islamic renewal KW - Women in Islam KW - Gender identity KW - Religious life KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Women in Islam. KW - Islam. KW - Feminism. KW - Sociology of culture KW - General ethics KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Religious studies KW - Egypt KW - Féminisme KW - Musulmanes KW - Renouveau islamique KW - Femmes dans l'Islam KW - Aspect religieux KW - -Muslim women KW - -Islamic renewal KW - -Feminism KW - -Women in Islam KW - -#SBIB:316.346H20 KW - #SBIB:316.346H29 KW - #SBIB:316.331H421 KW - #SBIB:316.331H360 KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Emancipation of women KW - Feminist movement KW - Women KW - Women's lib KW - Women's liberation KW - Women's liberation movement KW - Women's movement KW - Social movements KW - Anti-feminism KW - Islamic reform KW - Islamic revivalism KW - Islamic revivalist movement KW - Ṣaḥwah (Islam) KW - Religious awakening KW - Wahhābīyah KW - Islamic women KW - Women, Muslim KW - -Islam KW - Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen KW - Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: andere topics KW - Morfologie van de godsdiensten: Islam KW - Godsdienst en menselijk leven: algemeen KW - Emancipation KW - Reform KW - Renewal KW - Feminisme KW - Vrouwen KW - Egypte KW - Politiek KW - Vrouw KW - Maatschappij KW - Seksualiteit KW - Theater KW - Wetenschap KW - Architectuur KW - Film KW - Godsdienst KW - Cultuur KW - Media KW - Kleuter KW - Kunst KW - Ondernemerschap KW - Poëzie KW - Technologie KW - Kind KW - Geschiedenis KW - Voorlichting KW - Sociology of religion KW - Community organization KW - Feminism - Islamic countries KW - Muslim women - Egypt - Cairo - Religious life - Case studies KW - Islamic renewal - Egypt - Cairo - Case studies KW - Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam KW - Gender identity - Islamic countries KW - Muslim women - Religious life - Egypt - Cairo - Case studies KW - Muslimahs KW - Gender dysphoria KW - -Religious life KW - Ethics KW - Gender KW - Norms KW - Religious communities KW - Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6195322 AB - From the publisher. 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 movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba Mahmood's compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal assumptions by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? 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. In a substantial new preface, Mahmood addresses the controversy sparked by the original publication of her book and the scholarly discussions that have ensued. ER -