Interpreting piety among young Singaporean Muslim women of different ethnicities in secular Singapore : an intersectional approach

Women have known to be bearers, markers and transmitters for both religion and ethnicity — these intersecting social categories have shown to create new beliefs and identities. However, little has been said about the influence of such intersections on the way a woman interprets her piety. Drawing on...

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Main Author: Parveen Kaur Bawinder Singh
Other Authors: Han Sam
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2018
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-736912019-12-10T11:38:14Z Interpreting piety among young Singaporean Muslim women of different ethnicities in secular Singapore : an intersectional approach Parveen Kaur Bawinder Singh Han Sam School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology DRNTU::Humanities::Religions::Islam DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women Women have known to be bearers, markers and transmitters for both religion and ethnicity — these intersecting social categories have shown to create new beliefs and identities. However, little has been said about the influence of such intersections on the way a woman interprets her piety. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 19 Singaporean Muslim women from Malay, Indian, Arab and Pakistani ethnic backgrounds, this study uses intersectionality as a framework to explore how interpretations of piety among young Muslim women living in secular Singapore are influenced by their ethnicities. Marrying Bourdieu’s idea of the habitus with Foucault’s concept of the ethical subject along with Shibutani’s reference groups, I reveal how my participants intepret piety in varied ways when they resist ethnicity, accommodate ethnicity, or use ethnicity as a basis to argue against a socialised patriarchal outlook of Islam. These multiple intepretations of piety, I argue, depict a kind of piety movement that is multidimensional. Bachelor of Arts 2018-04-03T07:25:41Z 2018-04-03T07:25:41Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73691 en Nanyang Technological University 31 p. application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
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topic DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
DRNTU::Humanities::Religions::Islam
DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
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DRNTU::Humanities::Religions::Islam
DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
Parveen Kaur Bawinder Singh
Interpreting piety among young Singaporean Muslim women of different ethnicities in secular Singapore : an intersectional approach
description Women have known to be bearers, markers and transmitters for both religion and ethnicity — these intersecting social categories have shown to create new beliefs and identities. However, little has been said about the influence of such intersections on the way a woman interprets her piety. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 19 Singaporean Muslim women from Malay, Indian, Arab and Pakistani ethnic backgrounds, this study uses intersectionality as a framework to explore how interpretations of piety among young Muslim women living in secular Singapore are influenced by their ethnicities. Marrying Bourdieu’s idea of the habitus with Foucault’s concept of the ethical subject along with Shibutani’s reference groups, I reveal how my participants intepret piety in varied ways when they resist ethnicity, accommodate ethnicity, or use ethnicity as a basis to argue against a socialised patriarchal outlook of Islam. These multiple intepretations of piety, I argue, depict a kind of piety movement that is multidimensional.
author2 Han Sam
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Parveen Kaur Bawinder Singh
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author Parveen Kaur Bawinder Singh
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title Interpreting piety among young Singaporean Muslim women of different ethnicities in secular Singapore : an intersectional approach
title_short Interpreting piety among young Singaporean Muslim women of different ethnicities in secular Singapore : an intersectional approach
title_full Interpreting piety among young Singaporean Muslim women of different ethnicities in secular Singapore : an intersectional approach
title_fullStr Interpreting piety among young Singaporean Muslim women of different ethnicities in secular Singapore : an intersectional approach
title_full_unstemmed Interpreting piety among young Singaporean Muslim women of different ethnicities in secular Singapore : an intersectional approach
title_sort interpreting piety among young singaporean muslim women of different ethnicities in secular singapore : an intersectional approach
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