Ethics and Piety

A Companion to Moral Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 221-241

  Mahmood, Saba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asad's point, that religious secular cannot be easily separated in the modern world; Bodily behavior, endowing the self with specific kinds of capacities; Complicated relationship between performance of salat and one's daily activities; Egyptian piety movement, in understanding the bodily practice; Foucault ethics, with modifications of the soul, feelings, faculties, and dispositions; Foucault retaining Aristotelian emphasis on ethics, as a set of practical activities; Localities, ethics and piety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886459938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118290620.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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