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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-09279-0
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Anthropology
Body granting the degree
Michigan State University
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Large numbers of urban Pakistani women are adopting sartorial and behavioral markers associated with the global Islamic revival and are participating in Islamic revivalist movements. Many Pakistanis find this increase troubling, and feel that it betokens an increase in 'extremism' in Pakistan. Women's participation in these movements is controversial, and results in conflicts with their families, friends, and social networks. As they participate in revivalist movements, women are introduced to Islamic sacred texts (the Qur'an and Hadith), which movement leadership interpret in ways that support the reformist mission of their particular movement. Revivalist leaders draw on Islamic sacred texts to promote visions of a pure Islamic society, and call on women to restrict their spending and socialization habits, and to reject many aspects of Pakistani society as 'un-Islamic.'
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religion; Cultural anthropology; Gender studies
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Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Gender;Islam;Pakistan;Revivalism;Social class