Rachel Rinaldo
Biographic Data
| ID | 254078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Rinaldo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rinaldo |
| SIGNATURE | RINALDO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5182-4630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
“If I die, just pray for me”: Low-income working women, precarity, and the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia
How did women in the Global South manage work and family responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what can we learn from their experiences about how precarity intersects with gender inequality and crises? This article investigates low-income Indonesian women’s narratives of how they navigated work and family responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, examining how they turned to religious faith for support; increased their income ea…
I Have a Right to A Better Imam: Divorce, Islam, and Changing Marriage Ideals in Indonesia
Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia
In the past 20 years, divorce has increased in Indonesia. Indonesian statistics show that divorces initiated by women exceed those by men. One issue that is often neglected is how socioeconomic differences also play a role in this matter. Drawing on our collaborative research on Muslim divorces in Indonesia, this paper focuses on the interplay between divorce strategies and socioeconomic differences among Muslim couples. Our in-depth interviews w…
Amplifying inequalities: Gendered perceptions of work flexibility and the division of household labor during the Covid‐19 pandemic
During the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US, mothers have taken on more of the responsibility for childcare (including remote schooling) and housework. How did dual‐income couples negotiate domestic labor during the pandemic in ways that ended up with women taking on a larger role? Based on in‐depth interviews with 33 parents, we found that men's jobs were often discussed as being more demanding, particularly in their need for protected time, or requi…
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims
How and Why Interviews Work: Ethnographic Interviews and Meso-level Public Culture
Recent debates about qualitative methods have discussed the relative limitations and contributions of interviews in comparison to surveys and participant observation. These discussions have rarely considered how ethnographers themselves use interviews as part of their work. We suggest that Lizardo's discussion of three modes of culture (declarative, nondeclarative, and public) help us to understand the separate contributions of observation and in…
Contentious belonging: The place of minorities in Indonesia, by Greg Fealy and Ronit Ricci (eds.)
Forms of Life: The Method and Meaning of Sociology
Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia by Nancy Smith-Hefner
Reviewed by: Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia by Nancy Smith-Hefner Rachel Rinaldo Nancy Smith-Hefner, Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. 262 pp. Nancy Smith-Hefner, Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. 262 pp. The past two decad…
Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South. By Brandon Vaidyanathan
In the last few decades, certain cities in the Global South have transformed into business and finance capitals that attract professionals from their respective regions as well as from across the world. This new transnational professional class includes many who grew up in relatively modest circumstances in India, China, and other developing countries, and who are working for American corporations such as Apple and Google. Sociologist Brandon Vai…
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress
Obedience and Authority among Muslim Couples: Negotiating Gendered Religious Scripts in Contemporary Indonesia
This study of Muslim married couples in Indonesia shows that religiously justified scripts about wives' obedience and husbands' household authority are ways of accomplishing gender as well as achieving status as good Muslims. Such scripts are amplified by a context in which a version of Islamic family law that envisions women as primarily domestic and men as household authorities and breadwinners has been institutionalized. However, this vision i…
Reorienting Gender and Globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue
Jakarta: Drawing the City Near
Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures
A Gender Lens on Religion
This special issue is the result of concerns about the marginalized status of gender within the sociology of religion. The collection of exciting new research in this special issue advocates for the importance of a gender lens on questions of religion in order to highlight issues, practices, peoples, and theories that would otherwise not be central to the discipline. We encourage sociologists who study religion to engage more in interdisciplinary…
Contesting Womanhood in Two Indonesian Islamic Organizations
Sejak tahun 1980an, Indonesia mengalami kebangkitan Islam dalam bentuk praktik-praktik keagamaan yang lebih ortodoks, partai-partai politik Islam yang berkembang, dan kelompok-kelompok mahasiswa Muslim yang berperan penting dalam gerakan reformasi 1998 yang menjungkalkan presiden Soeharto. Namun gerakan Islam di Indonesia juga amatlah beragam dan banyak perbedaan berporos pada isu-isu gender dan perempuan. Tulisan ini akan membahas dua organisasi…
Pious and Critical: Muslim Women Activists and the Question of Agency
Recent turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has prompted renewed concerns about women's rights in Muslim societies. It has also raised questions about women's agency and activism in religious contexts. This article draws on ethnographic research with women activists in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population, to address such concerns. My fieldwork shows that some Muslim women activists in democratizing Indonesia m…
Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia
Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia
Women and Piety Movements
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: What is a Piety Movement? Three Modes of Analysis Piety Movements in the Late Twentieth Century Macro Structural Explanations Micro Explanations: Agency and Identity The Veil Community and Identity Consequences of Piety Movements for Gender Relations Conclusions Bibliography
The Islamic revival and women's political subjectivity in Indonesia
Women Shaping Islam: Reading the Quran in Indonesia. By Pieternella van Doorn-Harder
What would the global Islamic revival look like if substantial numbers of Muslim scholars and teachers were women? And how might women's enhanced participation change Islam? These are the kinds of questions that come to mind reading Women Shaping Islam, Pieternella van Doorn-Harder's thoughtful study of Muslim women leaders in Indonesia. van Doorn-Harder suggests that the answers to these questions may be found in Indonesia, the country with the …
Muslim women, middle class habitus, and modernity in Indonesia
Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand
A Gender Lens on Religion
This special issue is the result of concerns about the marginalized status of gender within the sociology of religion. The collection of exciting new research in this special issue advocates for the importance of a gender lens on questions of religion in order to highlight issues, practices, peoples, and theories that would otherwise not be central to the discipline. We encourage sociologists who study religion to engage more in interdisciplinary…
Pious and Critical: Muslim Women Activists and the Question of Agency
Recent turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has prompted renewed concerns about women's rights in Muslim societies. It has also raised questions about women's agency and activism in religious contexts. This article draws on ethnographic research with women activists in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population, to address such concerns. My fieldwork shows that some Muslim women activists in democratizing Indonesia m…
How and Why Interviews Work: Ethnographic Interviews and Meso-level Public Culture
Recent debates about qualitative methods have discussed the relative limitations and contributions of interviews in comparison to surveys and participant observation. These discussions have rarely considered how ethnographers themselves use interviews as part of their work. We suggest that Lizardo's discussion of three modes of culture (declarative, nondeclarative, and public) help us to understand the separate contributions of observation and in…
The Islamic revival and women's political subjectivity in Indonesia
Envisioning the Nation: Women Activists, Religion and the Public Sphere in Indonesia
Indonesia's Islamic revival has coincided with the growing involvement of women in civil society. Muslim women's organizations are playing an important role in how the Indonesian nation-state is being re-imagined for the 21st century. Muslim women's groups are incubators for women's diverse political activism. The increasing role of Islam in the public sphere provides religious women with an important platform, facilitating their involvement in n…
Obedience and Authority among Muslim Couples: Negotiating Gendered Religious Scripts in Contemporary Indonesia
This study of Muslim married couples in Indonesia shows that religiously justified scripts about wives' obedience and husbands' household authority are ways of accomplishing gender as well as achieving status as good Muslims. Such scripts are amplified by a context in which a version of Islamic family law that envisions women as primarily domestic and men as household authorities and breadwinners has been institutionalized. However, this vision i…
Muslim women, middle class habitus, and modernity in Indonesia
Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand
Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia
Forms of Life: The Method and Meaning of Sociology
Amplifying inequalities: Gendered perceptions of work flexibility and the division of household labor during the Covid‐19 pandemic
During the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US, mothers have taken on more of the responsibility for childcare (including remote schooling) and housework. How did dual‐income couples negotiate domestic labor during the pandemic in ways that ended up with women taking on a larger role? Based on in‐depth interviews with 33 parents, we found that men's jobs were often discussed as being more demanding, particularly in their need for protected time, or requi…
Reorienting Gender and Globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue
Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia
In the past 20 years, divorce has increased in Indonesia. Indonesian statistics show that divorces initiated by women exceed those by men. One issue that is often neglected is how socioeconomic differences also play a role in this matter. Drawing on our collaborative research on Muslim divorces in Indonesia, this paper focuses on the interplay between divorce strategies and socioeconomic differences among Muslim couples. Our in-depth interviews w…
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims
Space of Resistance: The Puerto Rican Cultural Center and Humboldt Park
West of the lofts and rehabbed townhouses of Chicago's Wicker Park lies the country's second largest Puerto Rican community, Humboldt Park. Politics here are fierce, and at the core of several stormy controversies in the neighborhood is the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC). The twenty-five-year-old institution is a bastion of support for Puerto Rican independence and barrio autonomy. Nationalist ideology permeates the Center's practices of cul…
Muslim women, middle class habitus, and modernity in Indonesia
Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand
Envisioning the Nation: Women Activists, Religion and the Public Sphere in Indonesia
Indonesia's Islamic revival has coincided with the growing involvement of women in civil society. Muslim women's organizations are playing an important role in how the Indonesian nation-state is being re-imagined for the 21st century. Muslim women's groups are incubators for women's diverse political activism. The increasing role of Islam in the public sphere provides religious women with an important platform, facilitating their involvement in n…
Women Shaping Islam: Reading the Quran in Indonesia. By Pieternella van Doorn-Harder
What would the global Islamic revival look like if substantial numbers of Muslim scholars and teachers were women? And how might women's enhanced participation change Islam? These are the kinds of questions that come to mind reading Women Shaping Islam, Pieternella van Doorn-Harder's thoughtful study of Muslim women leaders in Indonesia. van Doorn-Harder suggests that the answers to these questions may be found in Indonesia, the country with the …
Women and Piety Movements
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: What is a Piety Movement? Three Modes of Analysis Piety Movements in the Late Twentieth Century Macro Structural Explanations Micro Explanations: Agency and Identity The Veil Community and Identity Consequences of Piety Movements for Gender Relations Conclusions Bibliography
The Islamic revival and women's political subjectivity in Indonesia
Muslim Women, Moral Visions: Globalization and Gender Controversies in Indonesia
Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia
Contesting Womanhood in Two Indonesian Islamic Organizations
Sejak tahun 1980an, Indonesia mengalami kebangkitan Islam dalam bentuk praktik-praktik keagamaan yang lebih ortodoks, partai-partai politik Islam yang berkembang, dan kelompok-kelompok mahasiswa Muslim yang berperan penting dalam gerakan reformasi 1998 yang menjungkalkan presiden Soeharto. Namun gerakan Islam di Indonesia juga amatlah beragam dan banyak perbedaan berporos pada isu-isu gender dan perempuan. Tulisan ini akan membahas dua organisasi…
Pious and Critical: Muslim Women Activists and the Question of Agency
Recent turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has prompted renewed concerns about women's rights in Muslim societies. It has also raised questions about women's agency and activism in religious contexts. This article draws on ethnographic research with women activists in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population, to address such concerns. My fieldwork shows that some Muslim women activists in democratizing Indonesia m…
A Gender Lens on Religion
This special issue is the result of concerns about the marginalized status of gender within the sociology of religion. The collection of exciting new research in this special issue advocates for the importance of a gender lens on questions of religion in order to highlight issues, practices, peoples, and theories that would otherwise not be central to the discipline. We encourage sociologists who study religion to engage more in interdisciplinary…
Reorienting Gender and Globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue
Jakarta: Drawing the City Near
Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures
Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South. By Brandon Vaidyanathan
In the last few decades, certain cities in the Global South have transformed into business and finance capitals that attract professionals from their respective regions as well as from across the world. This new transnational professional class includes many who grew up in relatively modest circumstances in India, China, and other developing countries, and who are working for American corporations such as Apple and Google. Sociologist Brandon Vai…
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress
Obedience and Authority among Muslim Couples: Negotiating Gendered Religious Scripts in Contemporary Indonesia
This study of Muslim married couples in Indonesia shows that religiously justified scripts about wives' obedience and husbands' household authority are ways of accomplishing gender as well as achieving status as good Muslims. Such scripts are amplified by a context in which a version of Islamic family law that envisions women as primarily domestic and men as household authorities and breadwinners has been institutionalized. However, this vision i…
Contentious belonging: The place of minorities in Indonesia, by Greg Fealy and Ronit Ricci (eds.)
Forms of Life: The Method and Meaning of Sociology
Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia by Nancy Smith-Hefner
Reviewed by: Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia by Nancy Smith-Hefner Rachel Rinaldo Nancy Smith-Hefner, Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. 262 pp. Nancy Smith-Hefner, Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. 262 pp. The past two decad…
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims
How and Why Interviews Work: Ethnographic Interviews and Meso-level Public Culture
Recent debates about qualitative methods have discussed the relative limitations and contributions of interviews in comparison to surveys and participant observation. These discussions have rarely considered how ethnographers themselves use interviews as part of their work. We suggest that Lizardo's discussion of three modes of culture (declarative, nondeclarative, and public) help us to understand the separate contributions of observation and in…
Amplifying inequalities: Gendered perceptions of work flexibility and the division of household labor during the Covid‐19 pandemic
During the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US, mothers have taken on more of the responsibility for childcare (including remote schooling) and housework. How did dual‐income couples negotiate domestic labor during the pandemic in ways that ended up with women taking on a larger role? Based on in‐depth interviews with 33 parents, we found that men's jobs were often discussed as being more demanding, particularly in their need for protected time, or requi…
Divorce Narratives and Class Inequalities in Indonesia
In the past 20 years, divorce has increased in Indonesia. Indonesian statistics show that divorces initiated by women exceed those by men. One issue that is often neglected is how socioeconomic differences also play a role in this matter. Drawing on our collaborative research on Muslim divorces in Indonesia, this paper focuses on the interplay between divorce strategies and socioeconomic differences among Muslim couples. Our in-depth interviews w…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Asian Studies and History (17 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Islam (12 works) · Gender and Women's Rights (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works)