"Is God for Revolution? is a book about social change in a time of political upheaval and uncertainty, specifically the relationship between affect, politics and Islam. Based on interviews with (upper) middle-class Muslim Egyptians in 2018 and 2019, this work explores the ways in which political participation in a revolution and the emotions that the liminal democratic moment in Egypt evoked changed the landscape of religious discourse and practice. Before the 2011 revolution, for much of their early lives, the interviewees found themselves in structures of culturally agreed-upon forms of religiosity. They were raised during what scholars call the "Islamic Awakening" of the late twentieth century and heeded the advice of religious figures that circulated freely in mass media. Visible markers of piety, such as the veil for women and beards for men, became commonplace. In the wake of the 2011 uprising and its perceived political defeat, interlocutors broke free of many of these structural conceptions of Islam. The book shows how, for many youth, revolutionary affects, notably hope, disappointment, doubt, shock and anger, transformed their understandings of what it means to identify as pious Muslims. This is a story about agency in a postrevolutionary moment, the emotional toll going through this democratic experiment had on those who believed in the revolution and its ideals, and the transformative power of this agency and emotion on young revolutionaries' attitudes toward religious authorities and religious beliefs and practices"-- Provided by publisher.