Women’s Conception of Piety: A Reason to Divorce in Contemporary Malang

Jamilah, Erik Sabti Rahmawati

2018

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jamilah. and Rahmawati E. (2018). Women’s Conception of Piety: A Reason to Divorce in Contemporary Malang.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1147-1153. DOI: 10.5220/0009924011471153

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Jamilah and Erik Sabti Rahmawati},
title={Women’s Conception of Piety: A Reason to Divorce in Contemporary Malang},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1147-1153},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009924011471153},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Women’s Conception of Piety: A Reason to Divorce in Contemporary Malang
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Jamilah.
AU - Rahmawati E.
PY - 2018
SP - 1147
EP - 1153
DO - 10.5220/0009924011471153