Renewal and Enlightenment: Muslim Women's Biographic Narratives of Personal Reform in Mali.
The article takes Muslim women's biographic self-constructions as proper believers in urban Mali as a window to inquire into the kind of responsibility and moral agency that these women assume and make central to their search for 'closeness to God'. Focusing on the moral agency the women claim for t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion in Africa Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 93 - 124 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2011
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