Love in the Middle East: The contradictions of romance in the Facebook World-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Love in the Middle East: The contradictions of romance in the Facebook World

Published:2016-12 Issue:3 Volume:4 Page:229-258
ISSN:2050-3032
Container-title:Critical Research on Religion
language:en
Short-container-title:Critical Research on Religion

Author:

Friedland Roger¹,Afary Janet²,Gardinali Paolo²,Naslund Cambria³

Affiliation:

1. New York University and University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

2. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

3. New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abstract

Romantic love is a social fact in the Muslim world. It is also a gender politics impinging on religious and patriarchal understandings of female modesty and agency. This paper analyzes the rise of love as a basis of mate selection in a number of Muslim-majority countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey where we have conducted Web-based anonymous surveys of Facebook users. Young people increasingly want love in their married lives, but they and the communities in which they live remain uncomfortable with the mating practices through which such love has traditionally been achieved in the Western world. The paper explores the religious contradictions and the gender politics of modern heterosexual love.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Religious studies

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2050303216676523

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