%A NIM.: 21300011042 Annisa Fitri Amaliah
%O Prof. Dr.Phil. H. Al Makin, S.Ag., M.A. dan Dr. Sunarwoto, S.Ag., M.A.
%T GEOGRAFI MORAL DAN SENSIBILITAS ETIS PEREMPUAN JAMAAH TABLIGH DI BANDUNG INDONESIA
%X This dissertation examines how the piety of Tablighi Jamaat
women in Bandung is shaped through the relationship between the body,
space, and urban moral order. Within the anthropology of Islam, Muslim
women’s agency has often been understood through the dichotomy of
obedience and resistance, whereby piety is interpreted either as the product
of autonomous will or as a form of symbolic domination. This study takes
a critical stance toward such readings by arguing that piety does not
emerge solely from individual volition but is produced through repeated
ethical practices embedded within particular socio-historical formations.
Drawing on Saba Mahmood’s notion of self-cultivation, Talal
Asad’s conception of ethical formation, and Philippa Williams’s work on
urban moral geography, this dissertation demonstrates that the formation
of the religious self is not constituted solely through bodily discipline but
is also mediated by spaces that regulate affect, mobility, boundaries of
interaction, and ethical hierarchies. Bandung is approached as an urban
moral geography, a landscape saturated with moral evaluations concerning
how piety should be displayed, constrained, and adjusted across different
social contexts.
The findings show that masturah and other Tablighi Jamaat
activities function as intensive ethical spaces in which women cultivate
pious dispositions through silence, bodily discipline, restricted social
interaction, the cultivation of adab, engagement with religious texts, and
the intensification of religious affect. Yet as women move between the
markaz, the home, masturah, and the more plural social worlds of the city,
they encounter divergent moral expectations. In these circumstances, they
neither simply maintain nor abandon the forms of piety cultivated within
the movement. Rather, they continuously assess the moral weight of
different spaces and recalibrate their bodily comportment, dress, voice,
mobility, and social interactions without relinquishing their commitment
to piety.
This argument is based on ethnographic research conducted in the
Tablighi Jamaat markaz in Bandung between February 2022 and May
2023, supplemented by ongoing online communication until January 2026.
Data were collected through participant observation in a range of Tablighi Jamaat activities, in-depth interviews with female members, and the
analysis of the movement’s internal texts.
This dissertation employs ethical sensibility as an analytical lens
to explain how Tablighi women perceive and respond to the differing
moral weight of the social spaces they inhabit. Ethical sensibility operates
not merely as moral awareness but as the basis for their capacity to regulate
the body, manage affect, assess situations, and adjust pious practices
across spaces governed by different moral demands. Building upon this
ethical sensibility, the dissertation proposes the concept of liminal agency,
defined as women’s capacity to engage in ethical navigation under
conditions of in-betweenness: between the private and the public, between
ideal stability and social uncertainty, and between religious aspirations and
the demands of everyday life. This form of agency enables women to
sustain their commitment to piety without reproducing identical forms of
religious expression across all spaces. By bringing together moral
geography, ethical sensibility, and liminal agency within a single
analytical framework, this dissertation contributes to the anthropology of
Islam by expanding prevailing understandings of Muslim women’s agency
beyond the dichotomy of obedience and resistance.
%K Geografi Moral, Sensibilitas Etis, Agensi Liminal, Jamaah
Tabligh, Kesalehan Perempuan
%D 2026
%I UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA
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