Pious Practice and Secular Constraints

Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe

Jeanette S. Jouili

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Stanford University Press
13 May 2015

Islam; Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies; Islamic life & practice; Gender studies: women; Islamic studies

The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public anxiety. New government regulations seek not only to restrict Islamic practices within the public sphere, but also to shape Muslims', and especially women's, personal conduct. Pious Practice and Secular Constraints chronicles the everyday ethical struggles of women active in orthodox and socially conservative Islamic revival circles as they are torn between their quest for a pious lifestyle and their aspirations to counter negative representations of Muslims within the mainstream society.

Jeanette S. Jouili conducted fieldwork in France and Germany to investigate how pious Muslim women grapple with religious expression: for example, when to wear a headscarf, where to pray throughout the day, and how to maintain modest interactions between men and women. Her analysis stresses the various ethical dilemmas the women confronted in negotiating these religious duties within a secular public sphere. In conversation with Islamic and Western thinkers, Jouili teases out the important ethical-political implications of these struggles, ultimately arguing that Muslim moral agency, surprisingly reinvigorated rather than hampered by the increasingly hostile climate in Europe, encourages us to think about the contribution of non-secular civic virtues for shaping a pluralist Europe.

By: Jeanette S. Jouili
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780804792875
ISBN 10: 0804792879
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 13 May 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Practicing Islam in Inhospitable Environments 2. 'I Want to Instruct Myself to Strengthen my Faith': Learning in Islamic Institutions 3. 'Your Nafs Pulls You Down, Your Spirit Up': Struggling for Virtuosity 4. 'My Label Is Not a Feminist, It Is Simply Muslim': Beyond Emancipation Versus Submission 5. 'Housewife with Diploma?': Educated Women between Family and the Workplace 6. Visibly Muslim? Negotiating Appearances in Public Spaces 7. Pious Citizens?

Jeanette S. Jouili is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Reviews for Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe

Without doubt, Pious Practice and Secular Constraints is the best ethnographic examination of gender and Islamic practice in Western Europe. Jeanette Jouili offers a thought-provoking, nuanced exploration of Muslim piety and ethics, tackling issues of broad interest to those engaged with debates surrounding Muslims in Europe today. --John Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, author of Can Islam Be French? This is an impressive, engaging, and well-written study of ethical practice in a contradictory world. Focusing on pious Muslim women in Europe, Jouili expertly weaves together the voices of these women with a sophisticated theoretical approach that takes the study of ethical practice in a significant new direction. Pious Practice and Secular Constraints is an important contribution to the anthropological study of Islam in the modern world and to anthropology more broadly. --Katherine Pratt Ewing, Columbia University, author of Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin