Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: Islam and Feminism in Jakarta ; Chapter 2: Islam, Women, and the Public Sphere in Indonesia ; Chapter 3: Fatayat and Rahima: Islamic Reformists ; Chapter 4: The Prosperous Justice Party: Islamizing Indonesia ; Chapter 5: Solidaritas Perempuan: Global Feminism in an Age of Islamic Revival ; Chapter 6: Conclusion ; Appendix A: Methodology ; Appendix B: Development Indicators ; References ; Index
Rachel Rinaldo is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
With her book, Mobilizing Piety, Rachel Rinaldo joins a growing and
influential subset of social scientists attempting to theorize the
intersection of religion and social movements using the lens of
Islamic feminist activists in majority Muslim contexts. Rinaldo's
excellent work offers both the theoretical and methodological
groundwork for such further inquiry into the compatibilities and
limits of Islam and female agency in majority Muslim contexts.
*Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion*
Rachel Rinaldo gives us a richly documented and path-breaking study
of how Muslim women in Indonesia draw on both Islam and feminism to
argue and imagine political and social changes. Her findings go
against a pervasive view of the incompatibility of Islam and
feminism: she finds that these very diverse global discourses can
in fact work together towards desirable political outcomes.
*Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, and author of A Sociology of
Globalization*
This original study conducted in the world's largest
Muslim-majority country strikes me as one of the most interesting
and important works on Islam and women in recent years. Rather than
pit secularists against religious-minded activists in debates over
women's rights, Rachel Rinaldo shows that the major divide in
contemporary Indonesia - as in much of the Muslim world - is more
complex, and centers on struggles over what it means to be a
Muslim, a woman, and an Indonesian.
*Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University*
In this empirically rich and highly readable ethnography,
sociologist Rachel Rinaldo shows how Indonesian women activists in
four women's organizations -- which she studied between 2002 and
2010 -- negotiate religious norms, gender roles, and the influences
of globalization... Rinaldo's unique and outstanding study of the
values and actions of four women's organizations in contemporary
Indonesia enables the reader not only to gain a deeper
understanding of gender and Islamic politics in one country, but
also to recognize the variations in women's activism across the
globe. The book will be of value to scholars of religion and of
women's movements, and appropriate for upper-level undergraduate
courses in politics, social movements, and women's studies.
*Sex Roles*
The book is well written and theoretically sophisticated, and it is
necessary reading for anyone who studies feminism, globalization,
or religion and politics.
*Jeffrey Guhin, Social Forces*
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