ABSTRACT:This article explores the ritual creation of a distinct form of pious masculinity among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement, the Tablighi Jamaat. Pakistani Tablighis practice a ritualized form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) that they claim cultivates the pious virtues that allow them to live ethically with kin, neighbors, and fellow citizens. I argue that dawat entails a reflexive ethical stance on male agency and represents an effort to manage the growing problem of male violence in Pakistani life. I conclude by arguing that constructions of "religious violence" so prevalent in the age of the Global War on Terror are underpinned by liberal–secular assumptions about ritual as an absence of critical thought and hierarchy as intrinsically violent. This liberal–secular framework not only rationalizes secular power, it also elides the ethical work that Tablighis are doing to address the violent afflictions of postcolonial modernity in Pakistan.

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巴基斯坦伊斯兰虔诚运动中的虔诚男子气概、伦理反思和道德秩序

摘要：本文探讨了在巴基斯坦 Tablighis（跨国伊斯兰虔诚运动 Tablighi Jamaat 的实践者）中创造一种独特形式的虔诚男性气质的仪式。巴基斯坦 Tablighis 实行一种仪式化的面对面讲道 (dawat)，他们声称这种讲道培养了虔诚的美德，使他们能够与亲属、邻居和同胞合乎道德地生活。我认为 dawat 需要对男性能动性采取一种反思性的道德立场，并代表着一种努力来管理巴基斯坦生活中日益严重的男性暴力问题。最后我认为，在全球反恐战争时代如此盛行的“宗教暴力”的建构是由自由世俗的假设支撑的，这些假设认为仪式缺乏批判性思想，等级制度本质上是暴力的。