Women’s Religious Agency and the Positioning of the Mosque

A Case Study of State-Sponsored Female Preaching in Egypt

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6160906
AutoresDina Hosni (American University in Cairo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen16
Número2
Páginas165-191
Fecha de publicación2024-07-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMiddle East Law and Governance (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1876-3367 • E-ISSN: 1876-3375
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18763375-16020001
OpenAlexW4401176674
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas22

This paper captures women’s religious agency and their bonding with the mosque by taking a snapshot of the discourse and experiences of female preachers, appointed by the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments, who were confronted with the closure of mosques within the outbreak of the covid -19 pandemic. Though these female preachers have managed to perform their preaching roles while being detached from the mosque, their spiritual affinity to the mosque could not escape notice. This paper argues that the detachment of the female preachers from the mosque due to covid -19 offers a novel conceptualization of ‘religious’ agency that could be partially ascribed to their attachment to the mosque, not as a locale for their ‘official’ or ‘semi-official’ affiliation with the state, but as a ‘sacred’ extension of the private space of the home

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