ISBN:
978-1-138-86999-8
,
978-0-710-30599-2
,
0-7103-0599-0
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 203 Seiten
Edition:
First issued in paperback
Keywords:
Iran Islam
;
Muslime
;
Frau
;
Frau und Islam
;
Frau und Religion
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Schia
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Alltag
;
Wallfahrt
;
Schleier
;
Ritual
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; 1.Inrroduction; At my father's home; The religious life of women; Islamic knowledge: text or practice; 2. Female religious meeting: rowzeh-e zananeh; Inrroduction; The structure and organisation of women's religious meetings; Going to rowzeh; The symbolic construction of home Islamic rituals; Network of religious friendship and sisterhood: ham-jales'i; Conclusion; 3.Ritual exchanges and morality; Inrroduction; Shi'i cosmology and food feast; Conclusion; 4.The female preacher; Inrroduction; The girls' religious schoolThe female preachersBecoming a preacher; Dissemination of Islamic knowledge and learning; The economic position of the female preachers; Conclusion; 5.The concept of martyrs and its symbolic application; Political nature of Islamic rituals; Conclusion; 6.The passage of the dead; Female mortuary rituals: from death to burial; Conclusion; 7.Women making the pilgrimage; The local and international shrines; Gender dynamics of pilgrimage; Conclusion; 8.Reproduction of the Islamic social order and disorder; Introduction; Ethical and political aspects of Islamic ritualsQur'anic commentary and religious lessonsWomen's prayer lessons; Political content of prayers; Conclusion; 9. Hejab: Islamic modesty and veiling; Introduction: hejab as discourse; Veiling, modernisation and revolution; Veiling in the Islamic state; Modesty and sexual taboos; Hejab as a strategic behaviour; Conclusion; 10.Family management in the context of change; Introduction; Household management: micro-macro economics and ideological concerns; Life of lower- and middle-class families; Open market and petty trading; Households and families with more capital: economic mobility; Conclusion11. Conclusion: Women, Islam, and ritualGlossary; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Dissertation, Universtiät Bergen, 1996
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