Religious Rituals as Civil hexis: The Case of Modernist Interpretations of Islamic Rituals among Iranian Pre-revolutionary Intellectuals
In their attempt to question the assumption that rituals are merely symbolic, Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood tried to show that rituals have functioned as instruments. In Asad’s study of medieval Christianity and Mahmood’s work on mosque women, rituals function to make selves. These instrumentalist rea...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 185-204 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asad, Talal 1933-
/ Ritual
/ Instrumentalism
/ Mahmood, Saba 1962-2018, Politics of piety
/ Iran
/ Islam
/ Ego identitty
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Rituals
B representational (symbolic) B modernist Islam B instrumental interpretation |
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