ISBN:
978-0-253-01584-6
,
978-0-253-01587-7
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 260 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
DDC:
306.0962
Keywords:
Ägypten Soziale Bedingungen
;
Ländliches Gebiet
;
Geschichte
;
Widerstand
;
Politik
;
Regierung
;
Entwicklungsländer
Abstract:
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011 2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of the existential anxieties and stalled expectations that inevitably accompany such hopes. Drawing on many years of study in Egypt and the life stories of rural, lower-middle-class men before and after the revolution, Schielke views recent events in ways that are both historically deep and personal. Schielke challenges prevailing views of Muslim piety, showing that religious lives are part of a much more complex lived experience." Review: "This is a much anticipated and urgently important work, a landmark contribution alike to several fields of inquiry: to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the 'Arab Spring, ' to the description and interpretation of contemporary reformist and political Islam, and to the developing field of anthropological theory of everyday ethical life. A major, multifaceted, and sophisticated study." James Laidlaw, University of Cambridge"
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=027922492&sequence=000004&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA