ANTH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shia Islam, Hijab

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 209
• Professor: Emilie Parent

Document Summary

What does enchanted modernity look like: research on piety movement on outskirt of beirut in the 1990s, the images of beirut are of destruction does not portray the variety of people and living conditions. Syrian conflict has had large impacts as well: deeb carried out her research among a group of shiite muslims they understood themselves to be carrying out a particular modern project of creating an enchanted modernity. Use of reason understanding the practice and making a conscious decision about how to practice. Aim in exercising reason is to create a truer practice one that reflects meaning, understanding. Reason is a critical part of the way in which one tries to understand god. Exercise of human reason does not stand above or outside of god we have been given the capacity of figuring out god"s order: redefining the terms of discussion about being modern. New way of being simultaneously modern and authentic moving away from western modernity.