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*4.4.1. Women protect their husband from sins outside the home*

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of a *woman who causes men to sin by wearing revealing clothes*.

*4.4.2. A woman is a model for her children with her well-behaved attitudes*

position of a *woman who ignores her children's growth for her convenience*.

because voluntariness is foremost in Islam.

**5. Conclusion**

*4.4.3. Religious women become dependent due to their religious ideas and feeling*

Religious Muslim women prefer to cover their feminine attractions on the basis of their religious beliefs. However, this tendency is not independent from male religiosity. Veiling not only protects women but also protects religious men at risk of seduction by the female body. This means that women sin and cause men to sin by ignoring religious rules and wearing revealing clothes. The subject position of a *woman who protects her husband from sins outside the home by displaying her sexual attractions in the halal* home is the opposite of the subject position

Some participants say that Islam does not limit women's domestic life and prefer veiling in the domestic space because of the ideal of raising a religious generation. This preference uses historical religious characters as an example for the subject position of a *woman who is a model for her children with her well-behaved attitudes*. This construction is completed on the basis of two opposite positions. The first is a religious Muslim female (G-7) subject position *who is impressed by the modern world thus, becomes distant from herself*, and the second is the subject

Daily lives that include religious practices formed with references to Islam make some followers feel dependent. One of the reasons for this is veiling to execute the commands of the religion instead of displaying the bodily beauty. Another reason is the restriction on dressing at home and femininity related raising a religious generation. "Therefore, the subjective position of *religious women who become dependent due to their religious feelings and ideas* formed within this context stands against the subjective position of *those who become independent with their religious feelings and ideas*." The majority of the women with whom we spoke in this study did not regard the difficulties they have due to wearing hijab as dependence. This is based on two factors: some women believe that Islam does not limit women at home and around their children in terms of dress and behavior and thus feel themselves independent; others believe that the Islamic restrictions for raising religious generations cannot be defined as dependence

A daily life of religion and piety is an understandable issue in the context of the relationship of the actors' opinions, practices, and faith. Women's domestic experiences, the most impenetrable area of daily religious life, can only be understood by researchers understanding and interpreting their intentions. Religious Muslim women's domestic dress and femininity remain as unresolved questions in the social sciences. Although data collected from interviews conducted with a limited number of women cannot present completely clear results about female piety, they yielded a considerable amount of information about the issue.

Fatma Zehra Fidan

Address all correspondence to: fatmazehrafidan@gmail.com

Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Sociology, Manisa, Turkey
