An Islam of her own [electronic resource] : reconsidering religion and secularism in women's Islamic movements / Sherine Hafez.

9780814790724 (electronic bk.)
9780814773031
0814773036
9780814773048
0814773044
9780814773055
0814773052

New York and London : New York University Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (xi, 191 p.)

BP173.4 .H34 2011eb

297.082

"As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either "religious" or "secular" discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the 'secular' and the 'religious' as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism." Publisher Description.

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