Svetlana Peshkova, Women, Islam, and Identity: Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014, pp. viii + 352, ISBN: 978-0- 8156-3373-0 (Hbk)

Author Biography

• Lisa Worthington, Western Sydney University
  Lisa is a PhD candidate in the Religion and Society Research Cluster at the University of Western Sydney where she also teaches in both the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. In 2013 she was a visiting scholar at the City University of New York Graduate Center while she undertook her PhD fieldwork. Her PhD research investigates whether forms of cosmopolitanism and pluralism are present in the religious practices of progressive Muslim communities in North America.