Saba Mahmood (1962–2018)
Autor/a de Politics of Piety
Sobre l'autor
Saba Mahmood was born in Quetta, Pakistan on February 3, 1961. She moved to the United States in 1981 to study architecture and urban planning at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University in 1998. She taught at the University of mostra'n més Chicago before joining the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 2004. She was a scholar of modern Egypt who specialized in sociocultural anthropology. Her work focused on the intersection of Islam and feminist theory. She wrote several books including Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject and Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report. She died from pancreatic cancer on March 10, 2018 at the age of 57. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: UC Berkeley
Obres de Saba Mahmood
Questioning Liberalism, Too 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Mahmood, Saba
- Data de naixement
- 1962
- Data de defunció
- 2018-03-10
- Gènere
- female
- Lloc de naixement
- Lahore, Pakistan
- Educació
- Stanford University (PhD|1998)
- Professions
- associate professor (Anthropology)
anthropologist - Organitzacions
- University of California, Berkeley
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 4
- Membres
- 283
- Popularitat
- #82,295
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
As a general rule, the authors see "religious freedom" as a concept that is somewhat incoherent by design, so that its application is highly dependent on context and circumstance. The result is that it becomes an instrument of casuistry, and it permits the state to constrain and control religion according to socially conservative impulses.
The "Against the Day" supplement to this number of SAQ treats the anti-Putin protests in Russia in 2012 and 2013. The articles of this section include debunkings of conventional punditry about the motives and nature of those protests, as well as reflections on the properties and potentials of a depoliticized Russian citizenry. These were fascinating pieces, and I was surprised to see many similarities between Russian and US political situations in the 21st century, even as the authors emphasized the peculiarities and uniqueness of the Russian situation.… (més)