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Everyday Piety : Islam and Economy in Jordan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501704192
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Everyday PietyDDC classification:
  • 297.095695
LOC classification:
  • BP173
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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