The so-called "Hijabers Community" is an Indonesian religious movement that is led by young Muslim women who advocate faith and fashion simultaneously. While the scholarly literature on the hijab or the Islamic headscarf has explored themes on postcolonial resistance, local modernity, public piety, gendered class anxiety, and the pursuit of virtue, it surprisingly overlooks the topic of beauty. This paper privileges the viewpoint of members of "Hijabers Salatiga" in Central Java in order to argue that the Hijabers movement represents a mode of affective agency that connects stylish bodies with pious veilling and charitable activities, two previously unrelated domains in Indonesia. Importantly, Hijabers' aesthetics are characterized by unfinished-ness and openness, and therefore cannot be explained by functionalist accounts. The cultural trends and social effects of the Hijabers movement remind us that, in a globalizing era of religious revivals, sociologists and anthropologists should seriously consider religious movements outside of explicitly feminist and political agendas. Understanding this novel trend not only supports perceptions of modern Muslim women's creativity, but also illustrates Deleuze's concept of "the affective" - an increasingly prominent theme in the humanities and social sciences.
 

Keywords: piety, beauty, Islam, women, affective agency