@book {5529,
	title = {An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi{\textquoteright}i Lebanon},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton},
	abstract = {Lara Deeb{\textquoteright}s An Enchanted Modern concerns the many ways religious piety has been reborn and reshaped in the Shi{\textquoteright}i neighborhood of Al-Dahiyya in Beirut. She presents an engrossing anthropological account of a community fashioning a creative and rich religious modernity. Deeb encounters a vibrant, redirected, Islamic life, reshaped by the politics of the recent past, creatively re-imagined and lived in the present, with no sign of losing its centrality to individuals, communities and states in the future. Most notably, it is an Islamic life that is expressed in especially creative ways in the public and private lives of women. The modern pious includes women involved, educated, outspoken and part of a community, at odds at points with Western notions of modernity, and equally powerful and attractive.
},
	author = {Lara Deeb}
}
