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"""In Everyday Piety, Sarah A. Tobin draws our attention to the complex and dynamic ways in which everyday practices of piety intersect with various dimensions of what might conventionally be called economic practices. The analysis is situated in Amman, Jordan, a growing metropolitan area in which portions of the landscape are being restructured by neoliberal practices, aesthetics, public spaces, and modes of social interaction. Tobin's original approach opens up new space for thinking about the role of religion in a rapidly changing region. A must-read and one of the most exciting and innovative works in years.""-Jillian Schwedler, author of Faith in Moderation ""Everyday Piety makes key interventions both in anthropological approaches to Islam and in diagramming contemporary assemblages of religious practice and economic action. Sarah A. Tobin vividly depicts middle-class Islamic piety in Jordan today. In this nuanced account her interlocutors are neither radically other nor caricatures of modernity. Everyday Piety demonstrates how Muslims carefully navigate questions of faith and reason, holding both in an uneasy yet productive tension amid extensive social and political transformations. It is a virtuoso instance of ethnography in a contemporary urban setting.""-Daromir Rudnyckyj, author of Spiritual Economies ""In Everyday Piety, which is theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich and engaging, Sarah A. Tobin skillfully navigates the complexities of urban Jordanians' economic practices. The enmeshment of neoliberal economics, class, and piety provides a compelling and novel lens through which to examine the dynamically negotiated everyday practices of Islam.""-Julie Peteet, Professor of Anthropology, University of Louisville, author of Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps"

In Everyday Piety, Sarah A. Tobin draws our attention to the complex and dynamic ways in which everyday practices of piety intersect with various dimensions of what might conventionally be called economic practices. The analysis is situated in Amman, Jordan, a growing metropolitan area in which portions of the landscape are being restructured by neoliberal practices, aesthetics, public spaces, and modes of social interaction. Tobin's original approach opens up new space for thinking about the role of religion in a rapidly changing region. A must-read and one of the most exciting and innovative works in years. -Jillian Schwedler, author of Faith in Moderation Everyday Piety makes key interventions both in anthropological approaches to Islam and in diagramming contemporary assemblages of religious practice and economic action. Sarah A. Tobin vividly depicts middle-class Islamic piety in Jordan today. In this nuanced account her interlocutors are neither radically other nor caricatures of modernity. Everyday Piety demonstrates how Muslims carefully navigate questions of faith and reason, holding both in an uneasy yet productive tension amid extensive social and political transformations. It is a virtuoso instance of ethnography in a contemporary urban setting. -Daromir Rudnyckyj, author of Spiritual Economies In Everyday Piety, which is theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich and engaging, Sarah A. Tobin skillfully navigates the complexities of urban Jordanians' economic practices. The enmeshment of neoliberal economics, class, and piety provides a compelling and novel lens through which to examine the dynamically negotiated everyday practices of Islam. -Julie Peteet, Professor of Anthropology, University of Louisville, author of Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps

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Sarah A. Tobin is the Associate Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University.

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