Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages : Religion, Gender, and Belonging.

Cover -- Series Editor -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword by Péter Berta -- Introduction / Annelies Moors and Yafa Shanneik -- Part One. Gender and Generation: New Dating and Marriage Practices -- 1. Marriage Modifications in Aliabad: Social Change Overrides Clerical Directives / Mary Elaine Hegland -- 2. The New Marital Romance: How Bollywood, Islamic Doctrines, and Mobile Phones Dissect the Imperative of Spouse Evasion / Anna-Maria Walter -- PART Two. Dower Practices: Signifying Religion, Ethnicity, and Class -- 3. The Dower (Mahr) and Wedding Ceremony among the Shiʿa of Oman: Religion, Class, and Ethnicity / Jihan Safar -- 4. Mahr Iranian Style in Norway: Negotiating Gender Equality and Religious and Cultural Belonging through Transnational Shiʿa Marriage Practices / Marianne Hafnor Bøe -- PART Three. Temporary Marriage: A Flexible and Controversial Institution -- 5. Mut.a Marriage among Youth in the Non-Shiʿi Environment of Indonesia / Eva F. Nisa -- 6. Between Love and Sex, Modernity and Archaism: Iranian Students' Discourse in the Netherlands about Sigheh / Sophie-Yvie Girard -- 7 "Laboratory Sigheh": The (Dis)Entanglements of Temporary Marriage and Third-Party Donation in Iran / Tara Asgarilaleh and Annelies Moors -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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