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Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal

Author : Laura L. Cochrane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351817981
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal written by Laura L. Cochrane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal explores the historical, religious, cultural and economic contexts of Islam in Senegal through the narrative first-hand accounts of people’s everyday lives. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author over a period of seven years, the result is a critical look at Senegal’s religious diversity within Islamic beliefs and practices. Containing interviews from men and women in both rural and urban locations, this book is an important contribution to the literature on Islamic practices, providing a much-needed perspective from ordinary practitioners of the faith. It is essential reading for scholars of the anthropology of religion, Islamic studies, mysticism, African studies, and development studies.

Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal

Author : Khadim Mbacké
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558763418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal written by Khadim Mbacké and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book first traces the genesis and evolution of Sufism in order to explain the circumstances that permitted the emergence of Sufi brotherhoods. Next, brotherhoods that are currently active in Senegal, are described as to the means and manner of their diffusion, the lives of their founding figures, their basic teachings, their internal organization, the links they maintain with each other, and the role they play in the country's cultural, economic, social and political life. Sufism, an expression of the faith focused on spirituality, was the principal format of Islam in Senegal in the 19th and 20th centuries. (tariqa), and Muhammad (or Ahmad) Bamba, who established the Murid tariqa, joined by thousands of Senegalese, many of whom later migrated to Europe or America; and major Murid communities still exist in Milan and New York. The book examines both of these major Sufi tariqas in Senegal, as well as the Qadiriyya, and the semi-Sufi Laayeene movement, from their initiation to the late 20th century, showing their influence on Senegalese societies, and on the country's political life, both in the French colonial era and after independence. conceiving Islam outside of a Sufi affiliation. However, the leaders (the shaykhs) who, succeeded the founders, have been more concerned with the management of inherited material interests than in the spiritual education and guidance of the masses of followers. Nowadays, Senegal's shaykhs are more similar to traditional West African chiefs than to the dedicated Islamic educators their ancestors were, and most of their followers are content with this situation as they benefit materially from it. The study of the state of Islam in Senegal, and the religious factors that influence it, can help those concerned with this matter to reflect upon the future of Islam in that country in light of its past.

Islamic Scholarship in Africa

Author : Ousmane Oumar Kane
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012310
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Scholarship in Africa written by Ousmane Oumar Kane and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the europhone/non-europhone knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research in Africa.

Oppression and Resistance

Author :
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787431673
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Oppression and Resistance written by and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical and ethnographical approaches examine symbolic interactionism’s ability to deploy the concepts of structure and agency in sociological explanation. It illuminates the dialectic of oppression and resistance in everyday life, illustrating that actors make meaning through resistance.

Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice

Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000583902
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice written by Oliver Leaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual and practice are one of the most distinctive features of religion, and they are linked with its central beliefs. Islam is no exception here, and this Handbook covers many aspects of those beliefs and practices. It describes the variety of what takes place but mainly why, and what the implications of both the theory and practice have for our understanding of Islam. The book includes accounts of prayer, food, pilgrimage, mosques, and the various legal and doctrinal schools that exist within Islam, with the focus on how they influence practice. The volume is organized in terms of texts, groups, practices, places, and others. An attempt has been made to discuss the wide range of Muslim ritual and practice and provide a sound guide to this significant aspect of the religious life of one of the largest groups of believers in the world today.

Truth, Intentionality and Evidence

Author : Yazid Ben Hounet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317238958
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Truth, Intentionality and Evidence written by Yazid Ben Hounet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an anthropological exploration of the ways in which crime is perceived and defined, focusing on notions of truth, intentionality, and evidence. The chapters contain rich ethnographic case studies drawn from work in the Middle East, Africa, India, Mexico and Europe. A variety of instances are discussed, from court proceedings, police reports and newspapers to moments of conflict resolution and reconciliation. Through analysis of this material, the authors reflect on how perception of an act as a crime can differ and how the definition of crime may not be shared by all societies. The approach takes into consideration local standards as well as social, legal and contextual constraints.

Meeting Ethnography

Author : Jen Sandler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317195108
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Meeting Ethnography written by Jen Sandler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how might—ethnographers study meetings as objects, and how might they best conduct research in meetings as particular elements of their field sites? Through contributions from an international group of ethnographers who have conducted “meeting ethnography” in diverse field sites, this volume offers both theoretical insight and methodological guidance into the study of this most ubiquitous ritual.

Culture as a System

Author : David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351972715
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Culture as a System written by David B. Kronenfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content that produces the behavior? Is it to be viewed as a coherent whole or only a collection of disparate parts? Culture is shared, but how totally? How is culture learned and maintained over time, and how does it change? In Meaning and Significance in Human Engagement, Kronenfeld adopts a cognitive approach to culture to offer answers to these questions. Combining insights from cognitive psychology and linguistic anthropology with research on collective knowledge systems, he offers an understanding of culture as a phenomenon produced and shaped by a combination of conditions, constraints and logic. Engagingly written, it is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology of culture, philosophy, and computational cognitive science.

An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism

Author : Caroline Gatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317975049
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism written by Caroline Gatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists themselves. The book presents an account of the daily life and the ethical strivings of environmental activist members of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), exploring how a transnational federation is constituted and maintained, and how different people strive to work together in their hope of contributing to the creation of "a better future for the globe." In the context of FoEI, a great diversity of environmentalisms from around the world are negotiated, discussed and evolve in relation to the experiences of the different cultures, ecosystems and human situations that the activists bring with them to the federation. Key to the global scope of this project is the analysis of FoEI experiments in models for intercultural and inclusive decision-making. The provisional results of FoEI’s ongoing experiments in this area offer a glimpse of how different notions of the environment, and being an environmentalist, can come to work together without subsuming alterity.

Critical Times in Greece

Author : Dimitris Dalakoglou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315299011
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Critical Times in Greece written by Dimitris Dalakoglou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece, the book addresses a number of key issues such as the refugee crisis, far-right extremism and the psychological impact of increased poverty and unemployment. It provides much needed ethnographic contributions and critical anthropological perspectives at a key moment in Greece’s history, and will be of great interest to researchers interested in the social, political and economic developments in southern Europe. It is the first collection to explore the impact of this period of radical social change on anthropological understandings of Greece.

Distortion

Author : Nigel Rapport
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315317524
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Distortion written by Nigel Rapport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they are interpreted; between a statement of law and its enactment; between a vision and its artistic representation; and between a cultural tradition or habitus and its animation in contemporary contexts. Escaping the bounds of relationality, of structuration and of systemics, distortion is a form of complex connectedness that has seldom been addressed in the social sciences as a phenomenon in its own right. This volume argues for the key importance of distortion as a concept in the social sciences, and attempts to refine it as a concept. Each chapter examines distortion in the context of an ethnographic case study, examining how its conceptualization can further comprehension of a particular ethnographic situation. It is contended that distortion is an account of the emergent or revolutionary nature of human life, an emergence that can be attached to particular antecedent conditions in a processual or temporal way yet is a transformation of the essential nature of those conditions. Coming to terms with distortion adds significantly to the social-scientific appreciation of human activity and creativity, of conscious experience, of the nature of social interaction and exchange, and of the complexity of social milieu. Distortion should be essential reading on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate modules on social theory, contemporary issues and methodologies, communication, sociality, materiality, and intersectionality.

Sufism, Mahdism and Nationalism

Author : Douglas H. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472548726
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Sufism, Mahdism and Nationalism written by Douglas H. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Saint in the City

Author : Allen F. Roberts
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Saint in the City written by Allen F. Roberts and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Saint in the Cityexamines the elaborate visual culture of the Mourides, a Senegalese Sufi movement based upon the mystical teachings of Sheikh Amadou Bamba (1953-1927). In the boldly visual city of Dakar, images abound despite the fact that Senegal is largely a Muslim country. Vibrant street murals, calligraphy and calligrams, didactic posters, drawings that protect and heal, advertising images, colourful clothing, Web sites, intricate glass paintings, and innovative architecture all attest to the transformative potency that expressive culture has for Mourides. One image is ubiquitous throughout urban Senegal: the portrait of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, based upon a colonial photograph from 1913. Sacred images "work" for Mourides, and as Bamba is a saint (Wali Allah, or "Friend of God" in Arabic), his portrait actively conveys powerful blessings called baraka that help people to address everyday difficulties, challenges, and goals.The Mouride Way is observed by over four million Senegalese and thousands more around the globe including increasing numbers of African Americans and others converting to this most African of Islamic paths. Amadou Bamba's pacifism, dignity, and self-reliance, as well as his emphasis on the sanctity of work, offer a view of Islam quite different from those currently suggested by Western media. Indeed,A Saint in the Cityreminds us that there are many faces of Islam in Africa and throughout the world. It also assists readers to reconsider misconceptions concerning the prohibition of images in Islam in light of the explosion of visual culture derived from a single photograph of Sheikh Amadou Bamba.A Saint in the Citygrows from a decade of interdisciplinary research and focuses upon nine contemporary artists who base their works upon the spiritual teachings of Amadou Bamba, regardless of their particular backgrounds, training, or styles. The book boldly transgresses the boundaries normally enforced between local and global, fine and popular arts, gallery and streets, historical and contemporary circumstances. An emphasis upon Mouride artists' own voices further decenters the narrative.Allen F. Roberts is professor of world arts and cultures and director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA. Mary Nooter Roberts is deputy director and chief curator of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

In Pursuit of Paradise

Author : Eva Evers Rosander
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171067760
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit of Paradise written by Eva Evers Rosander and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muridism is a Sufi order which originated in Senegal, West Africa, at the end of the 19th century and is now in rapid expansion with the Senegalese emigrants around the world. Among the Murids the belief is strong that the founder Shaykh Amadou Bamba and his mother Mame Diarra Bousso can help them gain a better life on earth and entry into Paradise. The book gives an account of some Murid women the author has met in Senegal and on Tenerife. Their various paths of life are described with a focus on trade, religion and gender relations. In what ways do women's conditions of life differ from those of their own country? What do the women strive for? And how does Muridism influence their daily life in Senegal and in the diaspora? Eva Evers Rosander has been Associate Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, until 2014. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and has done extensive anthropological fieldwork in Spain, Senegal and Morocco.

New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal

Author : M. Diouf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230618502
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal written by M. Diouf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together scholars for their fresh perspectives on religious conversion, transnational migration, economic globalization, and the politics of education, power, and femininity in African Islam in Senegal.

Faith and Transformation

Author : Doris Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Transformation written by Doris Francis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted photographer, Ernest Knee came to Santa Fe in 1931, setting up a studio and befriending artists and photographers such as including Ansel Adams, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Laura Gilpin.

Journey Through Ten Thousand Veils

Author : Maryam Kabeer Faye
Publisher : Tughra Books
ISBN 13 : 1597846376
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Journey Through Ten Thousand Veils written by Maryam Kabeer Faye and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in a Jewish family, Maryam Kabeer was led to live in India and Nepal, and in monasteries in Europe, and then guided to embrace Islam at the hands of an ancient Sufi Master a few minutes away from the tomb of the Prophet Abraham. She then was guided to study intensively with Sufi Masters around the world. Her journey to the holy places and people of the earth, led her finally to Africa and the deep truth that all lives are totally interconnected and united with our own. This book is a significant and revealing social commentary, also dispelling many other myths and stereotypes such as the proposition, often fostered by the media, that women are inevitably oppressed in Islam. On the contrary, it is by entering into the heart of Islam that the author was liberated, elevated, empowered, and guided to realize the true purpose of her existence.