Women cultivate religious desire through deliberate training embedded in mundane daily tasks.

Evidence

Because such states of will were not assumed to be natural by the teachers, or by their followers, women took extra care to teach one another the means by which the desire to pray could be cultivated and strengthened in the course of performing the sort of routine, mundane actions that occupied most women during the day. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 858

Categorization

• SEED: The pedagogy of desire — how mundane household routine becomes the training ground for moral will — could ground an essay contrasting Western self-help’s presumption of already-existing motivation.
• XREF: connects to: Female church workers pushed formal training over emotional preaching — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 356