An Enchanted Modern : Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves simultaneously deeply modern, cosmopolitan, and pious. In this depiction of a Shi'I Muslim community in Beirut, Deeb examines the ways that individual and collective expressions and understandings of pi
1 online resource (276 pages).
9781400840786, 1400840783
730151752
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Language; Part One: Encounters, Approaches, Spaces, Moments; Introduction: Pious and/as/is Modern; Chapter One: Al-Dahiyya: Sight, Sound, Season; Chapter Two: From Marginalization to Institutionalization; Part Two: Living an Enchanted Modern; Chapter Three: The Visibility of Religion in Daily Life; Chapter Four: Ashura: Authentication and Sacrifice; Chapter Five: Community Commitment; Chapter Six: Public Piety as Women's Jihad; Chapter Seven: The Pious Modern Ideal and Its Gaps; Glossary; References; Index
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English