Faithful Transformations
eBook - ePub

Faithful Transformations

Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore

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eBook - ePub

Faithful Transformations

Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore

About this book

Malay Muslim women in Singapore cultivate piety by attending popular Islamic self-help classes. Nurhaizatul Jamil's ethnographic study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of this phenomenon.

The Islamic self-help classes in this book exist at the nexus of sacred texts, aphorisms, and social media engagements, scaffolded by the neoliberal economy that shapes idealized Muslim subjectivities. Within a context whereby the Singapore state discursively frames Malayness in terms of cultural deficiency, Malay Muslim women's inward focus on transformative ethics rather than societal change underscores the appeal of gendered pious self-help discourses. At the same time, Jamil's referencing of Black, Indigenous, and Ethnic studies offers a compelling analytical frame that places affective transformation within the context of racial capitalism, historical trauma, and embodied healing.

A provocative and rich ethnography, Faithful Transformations tells the stories of Malay Muslim women desiring piety and self-improvement as minoritized subjects in contemporary Singapore while exploring the limitations of self-care.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Halftitle Page
  8. Introduction: “Hope Is a Discipline”?
  9. 1: Whose Singapore Story?: Historicizing Malay-Muslim Subject-Formation
  10. 2: “God Tests Us with Hardship and Ease”: Self-Help Pedagogies
  11. 3: Eat, Pray, Love?: Racializing Affective Self-Help
  12. 4: “Just Listen to Your Husband!”: Gender, Religious Authority, Agency
  13. 5: Striving to Do Good Deeds Consistently: Everyday Islam, Discursive Traditions
  14. Coda: I’m Not Sure If I Still Want to Be a Feminist Killjoy …: Thoughts on Self-Help, Regulation, and Collectivizing Care
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index