Authors:
Jamilah
1
and
Erik Sabti Rahmawati
2
Affiliations:
1
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Netherlands
;
2
Fakultas Syariah, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim, Malang, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Divorce, Marital Tasks, Piety.
Abstract:
The emergence of private piety trend as the new form of Muslim religiosity gives a chance for women to manoeuvre their piety into diverse expressions especially in marriage. Recently, women start interpreting piety-constructed by their interest, knowledge, social norms, and religious activities they get involved and examining their husbands’ pious performance concerning their marital tasks and relationship. If the husband’s performance of their marital tasks are not following their understanding of piety concept, in some cases, divorce is unavoidable. This paper examines women’s concept of the husband’s marital task performances which are considered not pious, motivating the women to initiate a divorce. The analysis of women's narrations about their conceptions on husband's piety in marriage reveals women's demand on their husband's pious conducts in performing their marital tasks. If the husbands violate the religious commands such as drinking alcohol, the women consider the husband
is not illegible to be the head of the family, encouraging the women to terminate their marriage.
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