Book Launch: Debating Muslim Marriage – Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life
Date: Friday, November 24th
Time: 17:00 – 18:30
Location: Spui 25,
Register at https://spui25.nl/programma/debating-muslim-marriage
Abstract
Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate around the globe. Religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, media personalities, and women’s activists discuss, promote, or reject unregistered, transnational, interreligious and other boundary-crossing marriages. Couples entering into such marriages, however, have different concerns from those publicly discussed. At this event, we will present chapters from a newly published book that examines these debated marriages.
Editors:
Annelies Moors is an anthropologist, prof.em. at the University of Amsterdam, who conducted long-term fieldwork in Palestine and the Netherlands. From 2001-2008 she directed the ‘Muslim Cultural Politics’ program at ISIM. Engaging with the intersections of gender, nation, class and religion she published widely on Muslim family law; dress, fashion and face-veiling; wearing gold; migrant domestic labor; the politics of marriage; and doing ethnography. (https://sites.google.com/site/anneliesmoors/)
Julie McBrien is associate professor of Anthropology and director of the Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality, University of Amsterdam. Her research examines the politics of belonging in Central Asia. McBrien is Senior Researcher in the ERC project Building a Better Tomorrow: Development Knowledge and Practice in Central Asia and Beyond, 1970-2017. She is author of From Belonging to Belief: Modern secularisms and the construction of religion in Kyrgyzstan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017).
