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ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern Shi'i Islam
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Aghaie, Kamran Scot > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Deeb, Lara Z.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2005
- Thesaurus
- islam, religieuze praktijken, riten, vrouwbeelden, cultuur, Iran, Arabische wereld, Zuid-Azië, Pakistan, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- Commemorating the Battle of Karbala, in which the prophet Mohammad's grandson Hosayn and seventy-two of his family members and supporters were martyred in 680 C.E., is the central religious observance of Shi'i Islam. The contributors to this volume consider women as participants in and observers of the Karbala rituals in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, and the United States. They find that women's experiences in the Shi'i rituals vary considerably from one community to another, based on regional customs, personal preferences, religious interpretations, pupular culture, and socioeconomic background. The authors also examine the gender symbolism within the rituals, showing how it reinforces distinctions between the genders while it also highlights the centrality of women to the symbolic repertory of Shi'ism. overall, the authors conclude that while Shi'i rituals and symbols have in some ways been used to restrict women's social roles, in other ways they have served to provide women with a sense of independence and empowerment.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Afshar, Haleh > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Puar, Jasbir K.
- Publish Year
- 1996
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 1996 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, emancipatie, vrouwenstrijd, ontwikkelingslanden, Latijns-Amerika, Zuid-Azië, China, Iran, Palestijnen, bundel
- Description
- Een feministische analyse van politieke activiteiten door vrouwen in ontwikkelingslanden, met gebruikmaking van case studies. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Analysing women in the politics of the third world / Georgina Waylen : Women and the state in the third world / Shirin Rai : Feminist perspectives on democratisation in the South: engendering or adding women in? / Donna Pankhurst en Jenny Pearce : The role of women in the resistance to political authoritarianism in Latin America and South Asia / Rohini Hensman : Nicaraguan women, resistance, and the politics of aid / Jasbir K. Puar : Chinese women: media concerns and the politics of reform / Delia Davin : Social policies and rural women's fertility behaviour in the People's Republic of China, 1979-90 / Aiping Mu : Women and the politics of fundamentalism in Iran / Haleh Afshar : Women and politics in post-Khomeini Iran: divorce, veiling and emerging feminist voices / Ziba Mir-Hosseini : The women's movement, feminism and the national struggle in Palestine: unresolved contradictions / Kathy Glavanis-Grantham : Palestinian women and the Intifada: an exploration of images and realities / Maria Holt.
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