ANT365H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Post-Structuralism, Judith Butler, Islamic Revival
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Historical process brought the declaration of the rights of man and citizen. ^assumption that the individual is universal and ahistorical fundamental nature of the person does not change as it is determined by human nature. ^enlightenment allowed the nature of the individual to be realized. ^read and geertz emphasize that this is a western notion. Politics of piety women"s mosque movement in egypt to challenge basic human liberalism and western social thought including feminism. Professor says that there is an ahistorical core human nature. ^where there is injustice, there will be resistance. Mahmood challenges this participants in the women"s mosque movement do not challenge male domination, rather they endorse it questions universality of the liberal subject and proposes that the subject is the product of historical configurations of power. Religious knowledge as a way to organize daily life has become marginalized. Focus is teaching and studying scripture, social practices and bodily comportment.
