9780804794664-0804794669-Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe

Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780804794664
ISBN-10: 0804794669
Edition: 1
Author: Jeanette Jouili
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780804794664
ISBN-10: 0804794669
Edition: 1
Author: Jeanette Jouili
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe (ISBN-13: 9780804794664 and ISBN-10: 0804794669), written by authors Jeanette Jouili, was published by Stanford University Press in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Women in Islam (Islam, Rituals & Practice, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Women in Islam books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public anxiety. New government regulations seek not only to restrict Islamic practices within the public sphere, but also to shape Muslims', and especially women's, personal conduct. Pious Practice and Secular Constraints chronicles the everyday ethical struggles of women active in orthodox and socially conservative Islamic revival circles as they are torn between their quest for a pious lifestyle and their aspirations to counter negative representations of Muslims within the mainstream society.

Jeanette S. Jouili conducted fieldwork in France and Germany to investigate how pious Muslim women grapple with religious expression: for example, when to wear a headscarf, where to pray throughout the day, and how to maintain modest interactions between men and women. Her analysis stresses the various ethical dilemmas the women confronted in negotiating these religious duties within a secular public sphere. In conversation with Islamic and Western thinkers, Jouili teases out the important ethical-political implications of these struggles, ultimately arguing that Muslim moral agency, surprisingly reinvigorated rather than hampered by the increasingly hostile climate in Europe, encourages us to think about the contribution of non-secular civic virtues for shaping a pluralist Europe.

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