Everyday piety : Islam and economy in Jordan / Sarah A. Tobin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobin, Sarah A., 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Economic aspects--Jordan.

Islam.

Islam--Social aspects--Jordan.

Islam and civil society--Jordan.

Islam and civil society.

Islam--Economic aspects.

Islam--Social aspects.

Jordan.

Physical Description:

xiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Everyday Piety examines the intersection of globalization and Islamic religious life in the city of Amman, Jordan. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, 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. In its ethnographic richness, this book shows that actors make normative claims of an authentic, real Islam in economic practice and measure them against standards that derive from Islamic law, other sources of knowledge, and the pragmatics of everyday life. Book jacket.

Contents:

A Muslim plays the slot machines

The history of Amman: "I don't recognize Amman anymore"

Making it meaningful: Ramadan

Love, sex, and the market: the Hijab

Making it real: adequation

Uncertainty inside the Islamic bank: "Is this the real islam?"

Consuming Islamic banking: "they say they're Islamic, so they are"

Branding Islam: Jordan's Arab Spring, middle class, and Islam.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.

ISBN:

9781501700453

1501700456

9781501700460

1501700464

OCLC:

921821851