Sylva Frisk

Submitting to God

Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia

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Produktbeschreibung

This study of the everyday religious practice of pious women within Kuala Lumpur's affluent Malay middle class reveals that women play an active part in the Islamization process by organizing and participating in public programs of religious education, transforming the traditionally male-dominated space of the mosque and breaking men's monopoly over positions of religious authority.Sylva Frisk is a lecturer in the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780295989259
• ISBN-10: 0295989254
• Artikelnr.: 26523960

Autorenporträt

Sylva Frisk is a lecturer in the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Glossary
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Islamization in Malaysia
3. Submission to God requires knowledge
4. Religious duties and acts of worship
5. Transforming rituals: Claiming public religious space
6. Becoming mukmin
7. Conclusion: Feminism, anthropology and agency
Bibliography
Index