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An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Womenas Islamic Movements

An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Womenas Islamic Movements

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Islam

ISBN10: 0814773044
ISBN13: 9780814773048
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Apr 11 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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.

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