Muslim women, middle class habitus, and modernity in Indonesia.

This article asks how pious religious practices, which are often highly gendered, and implicated in diverse formulations of "the modern" in non-Western contexts. Based on ethnographic research among women members of Indonesia's Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), I argue that PKS women's pious practices...

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Publicado en:Contemporary Islam Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 23 - 40
Autor principal: Rinaldo, Rachel
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2008
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