Religious subject formation operates through micropractices of persuasion rather than indoctrination

Evidence

What I am suggesting here is that this kind of exchange presents a situation far more complex than any simple model of “religious indoctrination” would suggest, and requires an analysis of the micropractices of persuasion through which people are made to incline toward one view versus another. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 744

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to Spivak/Ahmad critique of Western epistemic frames — the liberal binary of coercion vs. consent cannot capture this mode of subject formation.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that persuasion rather than indoctrination shapes subjects is a load-bearing one for Mahmood’s whole argument that agency need not mean resistance; resists one-sentence capture.
• DEFINE: Sets up ‘micropractices of persuasion’ as an analytic alternative to the coercion/consent polarity that governs liberal-feminist and secular-liberal accounts of religious life.