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Entangled Pieties
En-Chieh Chao
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Description for Entangled Pieties
Hardback. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 250 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HR; HRAM; HRH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious Javanese city of Salatiga, this ethnography examines the interrelations between Islamic piety, Christian identity, and gendered sociability in a time of multiple religious revivals. The novel encounters between multiple forms of piety and customary sociality among “moderate” Muslims, puritan Salafists, born-again Pentecostals, Protestants, and Catholics require citizens to renegotiate various social interactions. En-Chieh Chao argues that piety has become a complex phenomenon ... Read more
This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious Javanese city of Salatiga, this ethnography examines the interrelations between Islamic piety, Christian identity, and gendered sociability in a time of multiple religious revivals. The novel encounters between multiple forms of piety and customary sociality among “moderate” Muslims, puritan Salafists, born-again Pentecostals, Protestants, and Catholics require citizens to renegotiate various social interactions. En-Chieh Chao argues that piety has become a complex phenomenon ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319484198
SKU
V9783319484198
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About En-Chieh Chao
En-Chieh Chao is Assistant Professor of Sociology at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
Reviews for Entangled Pieties
“Entangled Pieties revives this essential genre with a sophisticated ethnography of the city of Salatiga, Central Java. It is packed with rich theoretical and empirical insights, attentive to everyday life, and it makes the most of very rich qualitative data. … A key achievement of Entangled Pieties is its deeply relational analysis.” (Rachel Rinaldo, Innovation in the Social Sciences, Vol. ... Read more