Zahra Kamalkhani

Women's Islam (eBook, PDF)

Religious Practice Among Women in Today's Iran

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1998. This book focuses on two socio-cultural domains - the family and religious activity in the lives of Iranian women. Women maintain the integrity of the household, while at the same time taking part in wider social activities. With this background the author explores the religious practice among today's Shirazi women, its transcendental and pragmatic aspects, specifying women's performance in religious rituals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136173790
• Artikelnr.: 47893565

Autorenporträt

Zahra Kamalkhani

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 Female religious meeting: rowzeh-e zananeh 3 Ritual
exchanges and morality 4 The female preacher 5 The concept of martyrs and
its symbolic application 6 The passage of the dead 7 Women making the
pilgrimage 8 Reproduction of the Islamic social order and disorder 9 Hejab:
Islamic modesty and veiling 10 Family management in the context of change
11 Conclusion: Women, Islam, and ritual