Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages: Religion, Gender, and Belonging

Herausgeber: Shanneik, Yafa; Moors, Annelies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume brings together contributions of authors who engage with the marriages of Twelver Shi'a Muslims in Iran, Pakistan, Oman, Indonesia, Norway, and the Netherlands. With the wide geographical spread, the book offers the first comparative study of the diverse ways in which Shi'a Muslims enter into marriage.

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Produktdetails

• Politics of Marriage and Gende
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781978818460
• ISBN-10: 1978818467
• Artikelnr.: 61146263

Autorenporträt

YAFA SHANNEIK is a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK. ANNELIES MOORS is an anthropologist and professor emerita at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Péter Berta 
Introduction 
ANNELIES MOORS AND YAFA SHANNEIK
PART ONE
Gender and Generation: New Dating and Marriage Practices
1 Marriage Modifications in Aliabad: Social Change Overrides Clerical
Directives 
MARY ELAINE HEGLAND
2 The New Marital Romance: How Bollywood, Islamic Doctrines, and Mobile
Phones Dissect the Imperative of Spouse Evasion 
ANNA-MARIA WALTER
PART TWO
Dower Practices: Signifying Religion, Ethnicity, and Class
3 The Dower (Mahr) and Wedding Ceremony among the Shi‘a of Oman: Religion,
Class, and Ethnicity 
JIHAN SAFAR
4 Mahr Iranian Style in Norway: Negotiating Gender Equality and Religious
and Cultural Belonging through Transnational Shia Marriage Practices 
PART THREE
Temporary Marriage: A Flexible and Controversial Institution
5 Mut¿a Marriage among Youth in the Non-Shi‘i Environment of Indonesia 
EVA F. NISA
6 Between Love and Sex, Modernity and Archaism: Iranian Students’ Discourse
in the Netherlands about Sigheh 
SOPHIE-YVIE GIRARD
7 “Laboratory Sigheh”: The (Dis)Entanglements of Temporary Marriage and
Third-Party Donation in Iran 
TARA ASGARILALEH AND ANNELIES MOORS
Acknowledgments 
Notes on Contributors 
Index