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Before I go into discussing how care has a bearing on my interlocutors’ ethical formation, I want to highlight relationality and relational ethics, as these are the grounds on which care flourishes. Only by understanding relationality can we understand the reason for care and what it really means to care about others. Only by unpacking relational ethics can we understand how care is integral to particular pious, social, and political interactions. Relationality and care, which are central elements to volunteering, emerge repeatedly throughout this book and define lived religion for the volunteers. Indeed, they are the markers of their own piety and what they feel sets them apart from other Muslims.
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Kayikci, M.R. (2020). Caring Is a Part of Believing and Why the Ethical Is Relational. In: Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering. New Directions in Islam. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50664-3_3
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