Editing An Enchanted Modern (section)

=== 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.