Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages : : Religion, Gender, and Belonging / / ed. by Yafa Shanneik, Annelies Moors.
Muslim marriages have been the focus of considerable public debate in Europe and beyond, in Muslim-majority countries as well as in settings where Muslims are a minority. Most academic work has focused on how the majority Sunni Muslims conclude marriages. This volume, in contrast, focuses on Twelver...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Series Foreword
- Introduction
- PART ONE Gender and Generation:
- 1 Marriage Modifications in Aliabad: Social Change Overrides Clerical Directives
- 2 The New Marital Romance: How Bollywood, Islamic Doctrines, and Mobile Phones Dissect the Imperative of Spouse Evasion
- PART TWO Dower Practices:
- 3 The Dower (Mahr) and Wedding Ceremony among the Shiʿa of Oman: Religion, Class, and Ethnicity
- 4 Mahr Iranian Style in Norway: Negotiating Gender Equality and Religious and Cultural Belonging through Transnational Shiʿa Marriage Practices
- PART THREE Temporary Marriage:
- 5 Mutʿa Marriage among Youth in the Non-Shiʿi Environment of Indonesia
- 6 Between Love and Sex, Modernity and Archaism: Iranian Students’ Discourse in the Netherlands about Sigheh
- 7 “Laboratory Sigheh”: The (Dis)Entanglements of Temporary Marriage and Third-Party Donation in Iran
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Index