Humanizing the Sacred - Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia

Informationen zum Autor Azza Basarudin is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. This book is based on her 2009 dissertation. Klappentext Azza Basarudin is a research scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California Los Angeles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Malay Names, Honorific Titles, and Terminology List of Abbreviations Introduction | Faith, Self, and Community 1. Islam, the State, and Gender | The Malaysian Experiment 2. The Politics of the Sacred | Returning to the Fundamentals of Islam 3. In the Path of the Faithful | Activism for Social and Legal Reforms 4. Who Speaks for Islam? | Religious Authority and Contested Justice 5. Negotiating Lives, Crafting Selves | Narratives of Belonging 6. The Local in the Transnational | Gender Justice and Feminist Solidarities Conclusion Notes References Index

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• Authors: Azza Basarudin, Sisters in Islam Azza Basarudin
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780295995328
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99532-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Decolonizing Feminisms; Decolonizing Feminisms; Humanizing the Sacred; Decolonizing FeminismsDecolonizing FeminismsDecolonizing FeminismsDecolonizing FeminismsDecolonizing FeminismsHumanizing the Sacred
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology