TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tobin,Sarah A.
TI  - Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan
SN  - 9781501704192
AV  - BP173 
U1  - 297.095695 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Islam and civil society - Jordan
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - EVERYDAY PIETY -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- 1. A Muslim Plays the Slot Machines -- 2. The History of Amman: "I Don't Recognize It Anymore" -- 3. Making It Meaningful: Ramadan -- 4. Love, Sex, and the Market: The Hijab -- 5. Making It Real: Adequation -- 6. Uncertainty Inside the Islamic Bank: "Is This the Real Islam?" -- 7. Consuming Islamic Banking: "They Say They're Islamic, So They Are" -- 8. Branding Islam: Jordan's Arab Spring, Middle Class, and Islam -- Notes -- Glossary of Arabic Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Amman, Sarah A. Tobin demonstrates that Muslims combine their interests in exerting a visible Islam with the opportunities and challenges of advanced capitalism in an urban setting, which ultimately results in the cultivation of a "neoliberal Islamic piety."
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