Buying modern: Muslim subjectivity, the West and patterns of religious consumption in Lahore, Pakistan

This paper explores the emerging patterns of religious consumption in urban Lahore. The popularity and sale of headscarves, CDs and DVDs of sermons, Islamic mobile ringtones is often determined by their perceived popularity amongst the Muslim diaspora in the West. This paper analyses the reasons beh...

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Main Author: Ammara Maqsood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2012-09-01
Series:The South Asianist
Online Access:http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/48