Religious Homogeneity

In this weeks readings I was interested in the idea of religious homogeneity that was brought up. Mahmood speaks on secularism and how the mosque movement was challenging the way in which secularism aimed to separate religion into its own social sphere. The movement instead wants to bring religious aspect into all parts of life. For example, establishing schools in which Islamic teaching are found. This reminds me of the cassette tapes we previously read about. Also it made me once again think about how belief is tied to habits, and Habitus. Belief is something it seems that must be intimately connected to behaviors and practices. So much so that many different systems of belief demand that their practices be apart of other social spheres (education, economics, law). This was something seen in Becoming Frum as well.

What does all this mean for a feminist? What does all this mean for the freedom of the women in the mosque movement. I think a main point Mahmood was trying to address was that what this means for the women in the movement, doesn't necessarily need to match with what it would mean for a "Western feminist". If this is the case does that mean these women have their own version of feminism that must be defined? What for them is deemed as equality?