Enchanted Modern Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon

Name: Enchanted Modern Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
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ISBN: 9780691124216

ISBN-10: 0691124213

ISBN-13: 9780691124216

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lara Deeb

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Based upon two years of ethnographic field research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, 'An Enchanted Modern' describes how Shi'i Muslims in Lebanon engage with and deploy various discources about being modern.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.41" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Lara Deeb is associate professor of anthropology at Scripps College and the author of "An Enchanted Modern" (Princeton). Mona Harb is associate professor of urban studies and politics at the American University of Beirut and the author of "Le Hezbollah ï¿½ Beyrouth".



Acknowledgments


Note on Language



Encounters, Approaches, Spaces, Moments


Introduction: Pious and/as/is Modern



Al-Dahiyya: Sight, Sound, Season



From Marginalization to Institutionalization



Living an Enchanted Modern



The Visibility of Religion in Daily Life



Ashura: Authentication and Sacrifice



Community Commitment



Public Piety as Women's Jihad



The Pious Modern Ideal and Its Gaps


Glossary


References


Index