Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and ModernityBirgit Schaebler, Leif Stenberg Written by scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the Middle East and Islam (history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, political science) and covering the Muslim world extensively (from Malaysia, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, and Israel/Palestine to Muslim communities in Europe and the United States), this important contribution to the debate on globalization sets a standard in dealing with this pervasive force in the field of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. |
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Page 172
... women's religious activism in Turkey is more public than ever . This is true not only in the formal sense , through organizations and meetings , but also through the very presence of women's expression of religious values through dress ...
... women's religious activism in Turkey is more public than ever . This is true not only in the formal sense , through organizations and meetings , but also through the very presence of women's expression of religious values through dress ...
Page 174
... women there is no necessary correlation between employment and not leading a religious life . Quite the opposite , the more activist Muslim groups are well oriented in the urban landscape . Women move around extensively to go to work ...
... women there is no necessary correlation between employment and not leading a religious life . Quite the opposite , the more activist Muslim groups are well oriented in the urban landscape . Women move around extensively to go to work ...
Page 180
... women are constantly confronted with other ways of life . The question of the consequences of the urban conglomerate ( Hannerz 1980 ) highlights the cul- tural conflicts between rural migrants and the daughters of the megacity within a ...
... women are constantly confronted with other ways of life . The question of the consequences of the urban conglomerate ( Hannerz 1980 ) highlights the cul- tural conflicts between rural migrants and the daughters of the megacity within a ...
Contents
Global Modernity and the Local | 3 |
The Challenge of the Indigenization Movement | 30 |
Subjectivity Political Evaluation and Islamist Trajectories | 39 |
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