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Submitting to God

Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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In recent decades, Malaysia has been profoundly changed both by forces of globalization, modernization, and industrialization and by a strong Islamization process. Some would argue that the situation of Malay women has worsened, but such a conclusion is challenged by this study of the everyday religious practice of pious women within Kuala Lumpur's affluent Malay middle class. Here, women play an active part in the Islamization process, not only by heightened personal religiosity but also by organizing and participating in public programs of religious education.By organizing new forms of collective ritual and assuming new public roles as religious teachers, these religiously educated women are transforming the traditionally male-dominated gendered space of the mosque and breaking men's monopoly over positions of religious authority. Exploring this situation, Submitting to God challenges preconceptions of the nature of Islamization as well as current theories of female agency and power.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-08-28
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Dialogues in Southeast Asian StudiesCritical Dialogues in Southeast Asian StudiesCritical Dialogues in Southeast Asian StudiesCritical Dialogues in Southeast Asian StudiesCritical Dialogues in Southeast Asian StudiesSubmitting to God
Antal sidor252
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295989259

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"The book is especially welcome for placing gender relations at the centre of the immense changes within contemporary Malaysia and it will be of great interest to a wide range of readers interested in Southeast Asian developments, in gender and in religious studies more generally."- Maila Stivens (Pacific Affairs) "I strongly recommend Submitting to God to readers seeking a humane approach to Islam in Malaysia, a text that is not filled with negative images and addresses real spiritual as well as other social issues."- David Banks (Cont Islam) "An important contribution to the study of women in Islam. . . . We learn how these independent women actively seek to shape themselves as pious subjects and in the process make a profound impact on the practice of Islam in their society."- Rusaslina Idrus (American Anthropologist)

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