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Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia
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Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia Paperback - 2009

by Sylva Frisk


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In recent decades, Malaysia has been profoundly changed both by forces of globalization, modernization, and industrialization and by a strong Islamization process. Some would argue that the situation of Malay women has worsened, but such a conclusion is challenged by this study of the everyday religious practice of pious women within Kuala Lumpur's affluent Malay middle class. Here, women play an active part in the Islamization process, not only by heightened personal religiosity but also by organizing and participating in public programs of religious education.

By organizing new forms of collective ritual and assuming new public roles as religious teachers, these religiously educated women are transforming the traditionally male-dominated gendered space of the mosque and breaking men's monopoly over positions of religious authority. Exploring this situation, Submitting to God challenges preconceptions of the nature of Islamization as well as current theories of female agency and power.

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  • Title Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia
  • Author Sylva Frisk
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Washington Press
  • Date 2009-08-28
  • ISBN 9780295989259 / 0295989254
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in Islam, Women in Islam - Malaysia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009008139
  • Dewey Decimal Code 297.082

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2010, Page 21

About the author

Sylva Frisk is a lecturer in the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden.

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