"This very timely book opens doors into spaces of Islamic piety that shatter the stereotypes which dominate thinking in the West. Mahmood carefully unpacks the distortions that common modes of liberalism and feminism impose on the Muslim world. She combines richness of description with theoretical sophistication to provide insight into the struggle of some Muslim women to live their faith, often in the face of not only Western liberal influences but also Arab nationalism and political Islamism. The reader is forced to face dilemmas that cannot be easily resolved. This is social science at its most illuminating."--Charles Taylor, Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy, Northwestern University, author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
"This brilliant study of women in the contemporary mosque movement in Egypt is a provocative challenge to secular feminists and a testament to what anthropology can still offer--through its insistence on serious listening to other worlds--to critical social theory. No feminist theorist or anthropologist of modernity will be able to think the same way about liberalism, agency, or religion after reading this book. I hope that Mahmood's incisive analysis of the Islamic movement will also finally put an end to the banalities that currently masquerade as knowledge about this meaningful social movement."--Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, author of Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
发表于2024-11-22
Politics of Piety 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
评分The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
评分The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
评分The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
评分The role of women in Islamic countries, especially in developing countries, is increasingly recognized at all levels of development activity. A women's participation is critical to the success of these projects. Women get together to form agencies. In order...
图书标签: 人类学 性别 伊斯兰 Mahmood 文化研究 人类学·社会学 中东 anthropology
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 principles 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.
Mediocre theory. 工整而无趣。
评分前几天读Mahmood写欧中心secularism semiotic ideology对于认知和表达伊斯兰宗教sensibilities的不充分,很喜欢她的写作,就拿这本来读。田野对象是埃及女性在70年代开始的mosque movement,通过主被动freedom概念的引入,作者叫板liberatory politics中的种种关于sense of agency的立场假设-万一在特定的历史与文化建构中,个体行为并不在“logic of repression and resistance”的图景当中呢?万一特定的projects,discourses & desires并未能被这一套话语体系所充分捕捉呢?(这里因为读过她写semiotic ideology就非常能够理解她的动机) 她的写作不
评分对后结构主义取向的社会研究中agency/resistance分析框架更加基要的质疑,这些社会研究中并没有走出对人类主义自由主体的假设、并把分析者眼中的对自由的欲望视为绝对唯一的。。当然,这样的批判同样没有走出主体哲学的框架。
评分12.18补档 theoretically dense, introduces notions of subjectivity, different account of freedom on par Aristotle Foucault Butler etc. 理论多,权重上人类学材料略少一点。她算是third wave feminism...? 虽然理论上赋予穆斯林妇女另一种主体性,但事实上并不能改善她们没有同等选择的余地……不是吗?学校要求读的书,还算是很好的理论基础入门。
评分领先酷儿理论一百年。。。
Politics of Piety 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书