Editing An Enchanted Modern (section)

== Abstract of chapters ==

=== Part 1: Encounters, Approaches, Spaces, Moments ===
'''Chapter One, Al-Dahiyya: Sight, Sound, Season'''

In this chapter, the author depicts al-Dahiyya, the area of Beirut where the urban heart of the [[Shiʿa|Shi’i]] pious modern lies, in order to excavate the visual, aural, and seasonal transformation of this public space into one of piety. Through this part the ways the pious modern saturates the area, evidence of its visibility on the national stage is shown.

'''Chapter Two, From Marginalization to Institutionalization'''

In this chapter the author steps back and provides some crucial history and background, especially concerning the institutionalization of the Lebanese Shi’i Islamic movement over the past three decades. In this section we have a report of what happened to religion for Lebanese, the failures of the left, the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and the Israeli invasions and occupation of Lebanon.

=== Part 2: Living an Enchanted Modern ===
'''Chapter Three, The Visibility of Religion in Daily Life'''

This chapter focuses on religious practices and discourses and how they permeate daily life in ways that are considered new. The author considers embodied and discursive forms of piety, as she believes they emerge as both public markers of personal faith and markers of the spiritual progress of the community.

'''Chapter Four Ashura: Authentication and Sacriﬁce'''

This chapter is about a religious season, known as [[Ashura]], the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of [[Hussain ibn Ali|Imam Husayn]], grandson of the [[Prophet Muhammad]] and one of the most important figures in Shi’ism. What happened in Ashura and the commemoration’s importance as a contemporary narrative framework for living public piety provides a way through which to explore the shift to authenticated Islam in all its complexity.

'''Chapter Five Community Commitment'''

In chapter 5, Lara Deeb takes up women’s volunteerism as the vehicle through which women’s piety is most clearly brought into the public realm. Women’s community service activities are discussed as crucial to both material and spiritual progress. She also considers the ways that piety and politics, as well as humanitarian sentiment and historical models like those of Ashura, merge to motivate women’s public participation.

'''Chapter Six, Public Piety as Women’s Jihad'''

This chapter emphasizes on the ways gender is implicated in public piety and the pious modern. The author explores how public piety is cast as women’s ''jihad'' and the implications of its imperative on women’s lives, as well as the relationship between women’s visibility and ideas about modern-ness.

'''Chapter Seven, The Pious Modern Ideal and Its Gaps'''

This chapter is about generational differences and the concomitant gaps in public piety which concludes with a revisiting of the pious modern ideal in the contemporary context.