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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction At my father's home The religious life of women Islamic knowledge text or practice 2 Female religious meeting rowzeh e zananeh Introduction The structure and organisation of women's religious meetings Going to rowzeh The symbolic construction of home Islamic rituals Network of religious friendship and sisterhood ham jales'i Conclusion 3 Ritual exchanges and morality Introduction Shi'i cosmology and food feast Conclusion 4 The female preacher Introduction The girl's religious school The female preachers Becoming a preacher Dissemination of Islamic knowledge and learning The economic position of the female preachers Conclusion 5 The concept of martyrs and its symbolic application Political nature of Islamic rituals Conclusion 6 The passage of the dead Female mortuary rituals from death to burial Conclusion 7 Women making the pilgrimage The local and international shrines Gender dynamics of pilgrimage Conclusion 8 Reproduction of the Islamic social order and disorder Introduction Ethical and political aspects of Islamic rituals Qur'anic commentary and religious lessons Women's prayer lessons Political content of prayers Conclusion 9 Hejab Islamic modesty and veiling Introduction hejab as discourse Veiling, modernisation and revolution Veiling in the Islamic state Modesty and sexual taboos Hejab as a strategic behaviour Conclusion 10 Family management in the context of change Introduction Household management micro macro economics and ideological concerns Life of lower and middle class families Open market and petty trading Household and families with more capital economic mobility Conclusion 11 Conclusion Women, Islam, and ritual Glossary Bibliography Author Index Subject Index
ISBN: 0710305990
Author: Zahra Kamalkhani, Zhara Kamalkhani
Category: Religion
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