Title:
Submitting to God : women and Islam in urban Malaysia
Personal Author:
Series:
Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
Publication Information:
Denmark : NIAS Press, 2009
Physical Description:
xvii, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9788776940485
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Summary
Summary
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.
