| ID | 106696 |
| Title Proper | Piety as a concept underpinning muslim women's online discussions of marriage and professional career |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Piela, Anna |
| Publication | 2011. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In this article, I address piety as a concept shaping Muslim women's online discussions about gender roles, marriage and professional careers. I also investigate cross-cultural religious encounters in these women-only groups as I am interested in the potential of such online environments to facilitate women's religious reflection and intellectual engagement. Finally, I explore motivations and religious interpretations of three categories of participants in these discussions: egalitarians, for whom gender equality is a necessary component of piety (Barlas 2006); traditionalists, identified by other authors as Islamists (Karam 1998) or social conservatives (Gül and Gül 48:1-26, 2000; Mahmood 2005) and finally, holists, a group that cannot be mapped out on the political landscape by using the progressive-conservative binary (Badran, Agenda 50:41-57, 2001) and which exists and acts outside of it, neither subverting nor enacting norms of any dominant system, be it secular-liberal or patriarchal. Following Mahmood's argument that formulating an analysis based exclusively on such a binary is simplistic (Mahmood 2005), I argue that actions of holists can be only addressed by formulating a set of questions different to those used to analyse self-defined egalitarians or traditionalists. |
| `In' analytical Note | Contemporary Islam Vol. 5, No. 3; Oct 2011: p.249-265 |
| Journal Source | Contemporary Islam Vol. 5, No. 3; Oct 2011: p.249-265 |
| Key Words | Muslim Women ; Online ; Religion ; Islam |