Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility
Redaktion: Buitelaar, Marjo; Thimm, Viola; Stephan-Emmrich, Manja

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women's mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women's lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000287141
• Artikelnr.: 60533477

Autorenporträt

Marjo Buitelaar is an anthropologist and Professor of Contemporary Islam at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is programme-leader of the research project 'Modern Articulations of Pilgrimage to Mecca', funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Manja Stephan-Emmrich is Professor of Transregional Central Asian Studies, with a special focus on Islam and migration, at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, and a socio-cultural anthropologist. She is a Principal Investigator at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS) and co-leader of the research project 'Women's Pathways to Professionalization in Muslim Asia. Reconfiguring religious knowledge, gender, and connectivity', which is part of the Shaping Asia network initiative (2020-2023, funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG). Viola Thimm is Professorial Candidate (Habilitandin) at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. She has been Principal Investigator of the project 'From Malaysia to Dubai: Muslim pilgrimage and gender in the context of consuming practices', since October 2013 (funded by the Olympia Morata Programme in support of young female professors, DFG, and the 'Nachwuchsinitiative Universität Hamburg' - Initiative for young scholars).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women's new mobilities-Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, and Viola Thimm; 1 Under male supervision? Nationality, age and Islamic belief as basis for Muslim women's pilgrimage-Viola Thimm; 2 Young Moroccan-Dutch women on hajj: Claiming female space-Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany & Marjo Buitelaar; 3 Power in Moroccan women's narratives of the hajj-Kholoud Al-Ajarma; 4 Shi'i Muslim women's pilgrimage rituals to Lady Fatemeh-Masoumeh's shrine in Qom-Ladan Rahbari; 5 Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics and charity for Palestinian children: Indonesian women's shopping activities while on pilgrimage to Jerusalem-Mirjam Lücking; 6 'Clothing cannot improve moral behaviour': Pilgrimage, fashion, and entrepreneurship in a West African market-Erin Kenny; 7 Considering the silences: Understanding historical narratives of women's Indian Ocean hajj mobility-Jacqueline H. Fewkes; 8 Bosnian women on hajj-Dzenita Karic; 9 In the 'Land of Wonders': Bint Al-Sha i''s pilgrimage: The hajj and the construction of reformist religiosity-Richard van Leeuwen; 10 Stepping in the footsteps of Hajar to bring home the hajj: Dialogical positioning in Asra Nomani's memoir Standing Alone-Marjo Buitelaar