Discussion: Materializing Piety

What was Carla Jones' article about and what were some of your reactions to it?

Thesis Statement?

Pressures from both consumption culture and Islamic values manifest themselves in anxieties about jilbab fashion. And while these anxieties allow women to craft their own “simple” styles, the aforementioned structural forces place the burden of this balancing act disproportionately on women and the same “simple” styles these individuals hail as representations of themselves become the premise for others to criticize them.

Sections of Literature Review?

Literature review sections

• Blend of Islam and capitalism in Indonesia as a locally specific blend of self-improvement, corporatism, or neoliberalism (Jones, 620)
• How religiosity and consumption intersect (Jones, 620)

Theories/concepts?

Theoretical Framework

• Marxist theory (pg. 626)
• Weber
• Simmel
• Feminist theories: Victoria de Grazia (pg. 627)