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Saba Mahmood (1962–2018)

Autor de Politics of Piety

4 Obras 280 Miembros 1 Reseña

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Saba Mahmood was born in Quetta, Pakistan on February 3, 1961. She moved to the United States in 1981 to study architecture and urban planning at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University in 1998. She taught at the University of mostrar más Chicago before joining the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 2004. She was a scholar of modern Egypt who specialized in sociocultural anthropology. Her work focused on the intersection of Islam and feminist theory. She wrote several books including Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject and Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report. She died from pancreatic cancer on March 10, 2018 at the age of 57. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Nombre canónico
Mahmood, Saba
Fecha de nacimiento
1962
Fecha de fallecimiento
2018-03-10
Género
female
Lugar de nacimiento
Lahore, Pakistan
Educación
Stanford University (PhD|1998)
Ocupaciones
associate professor (Anthropology)
anthropologist
Organizaciones
University of California, Berkeley

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Although South Atlantic Quarterly is published out of North Carolina, this number on "Politics of Religious Freedom" brings a global, and somewhat European-centered perspective to an issue that many Americans think of as having exceptional relevance to our traditions of government. Accordingly, there is no discussion of "separation of church and state," and instead, there are repeated explorations of the distinction between the forum internum and the forum externum and 20th-century formulations of "human rights." Besides the European genealogy of religious freedom, the writings here treat the interesting contemporary cases of Hindu majoritarianism in India and the official treatment of Bahaism in Egypt. The sole US-centered article is concerned with "US Evangelicals and the Politics of Slave Redemption in Sudan," which is hardly a customary topic in this field.

As a general rule, the authors see "religious freedom" as a concept that is somewhat incoherent by design, so that its application is highly dependent on context and circumstance. The result is that it becomes an instrument of casuistry, and it permits the state to constrain and control religion according to socially conservative impulses.

The "Against the Day" supplement to this number of SAQ treats the anti-Putin protests in Russia in 2012 and 2013. The articles of this section include debunkings of conventional punditry about the motives and nature of those protests, as well as reflections on the properties and potentials of a depoliticized Russian citizenry. These were fascinating pieces, and I was surprised to see many similarities between Russian and US political situations in the 21st century, even as the authors emphasized the peculiarities and uniqueness of the Russian situation.
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