"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2025-02-02
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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.
研究对象是埃及女性组织的清真寺课程,在dawa的实践中,埃及女性通过对宗教的重新解释,找到了面对各种生活情况的新方法。作者借这个民族志研究,批判了西方的自由主义的女权主义,质疑其普世性。比较难读,但是读到最后是很痛快的。
评分Thanks for turning my intellectual value into disorder again...
评分最近读的最有力的讨论批判西方女权主义的民族志 相见恨晚
评分一个虔诚运动中的女性一边努力虔诚地实践伊斯兰教一边和自己的丈夫斗智斗勇的故事,"our analytical explorations should not be reduced to the requirements of political judgment",读到最后会觉得比自己预想的要convincing,虽然还是有点绕,到底什么算resistance,什么算agency,人一定要选择autonomy吗?
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。
Politics of Piety 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书