ISBN: 9780231141574 - reshaping the holy: democracy, development, and muslim women in bangladesh (3 Ergebnisse)

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorElora ShehabuddinKlappentextIslamic studies tend to focus on texts rather than lived experience and to privilege Muslims in Arab countries, Iran, and Turkey over Muslims in the rest of th.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Islamic studies tend to focus on texts rather than lived experience and to privilege Muslims in Arab countries, Iran, and Turkey over Muslims in the rest of the world. Breaking away from these traditional concerns, Elora Shehabuddin directs her attention to South Asia, home to a the largest number of Muslims in the world. Through extensive ethnographic field research, she demonstrates how women, in their employment and in their interactions with the legal system, the state, NGOs, and political and religious groups, are changing state practices, views of women in the public sphere, and the nature of lived Islam itself.…