Overview
- Unpacks the 'relationality' of Muslims to allow for a more nuanced approach to the experiences of European Muslims
- Draws on an original and detailed anthropological study of local Muslim volunteering, which offers in-depth analyses on ethics, subjectivation, social-engagement and public piety
- Provides critical insight into care and the ethics of care, delving how social care takes shape with the influence of religion and citizenship duties
Part of the book series: New Directions in Islam (NDI)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Kayikci draws on a wealth of interview material that sheds light on the ethical turn in the anthropology of Islam, exploring how volunteering enables the space and time for Muslim women to commit to both orthodox religious and civic social values. As volunteering and interacting (caring) with the society requires careful deliberation of their society and their position as Muslims, and as women in that society, this research unpacks how multiple belongings of Muslim women in Belgium are negotiated, balanced, and influenced. This analysis reveals how the everyday is informed by different epistemological traditions; both the liberal and the Islamic, and how these traditions make the life-worlds of the women.
Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering will be of interest to academics across religious studies, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and community studies, especially scholars working in the areas of ethics, migration, Muslims in Europe, volunteering and activism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Merve Reyhan Kayikci is Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Granada, Spain. She is also an affiliated staff member in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering
Book Subtitle: Committing to Society, Committing to God
Authors: Merve Reyhan Kayikci
Series Title: New Directions in Islam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50664-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50663-6Published: 29 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50666-7Published: 30 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50664-3Published: 28 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2991
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 351
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Social Anthropology, Women's Studies, Islam