Description: This study of the everyday religious practice of pious women within Kuala Lumpur's affluent Malay middle class reveals that women play an active part in the Islamization process by organizing and participating in public programs of religious education, transforming the traditionally male-dominated space of the mosque and breaking men's monopoly over positions of religious authority.Sylva Frisk is a lecturer in the School of Global Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Review Quotes:
"An important contribution to the study of women in Islam. . . . We learn how these independent women actively seek to shape themselves as pious subjects and in the process make a profound impact on the practice of Islam in their society."
--Rusaslina Idrus "American Anthropologist" (1/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)