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Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia (eBook)

Shrines, Journeys and Wanderers
ISBN: 978-1-317-37999-7
GTIN: 9781317379997
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The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint - often a Sufi - is buried, and it works as a main social factor, with the power of integrating or rejecting people and groups, and as a mirror reflecting the intricacies of a society. The book discusses the role of popular Islam in structuring individual and collective identities in contemporary South Asia. It identifies similarities and differences between the worship of saints and the pattern of religious attendance to tombs and mausoleums in South Asian Sufism and Shi`ism. Inspired by new advances in the field of ritual and pilgrimage studies, the book demonstrates that religious gatherings are spaces of negotiation and redefinitions of religious identity and of the notion of sainthood. Drawing from a large corpus of vernacular and colonial sources, as well as the register of popular literature and ethnographic observation, the authors describe how religious identities are co-constructed through the management of rituals, and are constantly renegotiated through discourses and religious practices.By enabling students, researchers and academics to critically understand the complexity of religious places within the world of popular and devotional Islam, this geographical re-mapping of Muslim religious gatherings in contemporary South Asia contributes to a new understanding of South Asian and Islamic Studies.
The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint - often a Sufi - is buried, and it works as a main social factor, with the power of integrating or rejecting people and groups, and as a mirror reflecting the intricacies of a society. The book discusses the role of popular Islam in structuring individual and collective identities in contemporary South Asia. It identifies similarities and differences between the worship of saints and the pattern of religious attendance to tombs and mausoleums in South Asian Sufism and Shi`ism. Inspired by new advances in the field of ritual and pilgrimage studies, the book demonstrates that religious gatherings are spaces of negotiation and redefinitions of religious identity and of the notion of sainthood. Drawing from a large corpus of vernacular and colonial sources, as well as the register of popular literature and ethnographic observation, the authors describe how religious identities are co-constructed through the management of rituals, and are constantly renegotiated through discourses and religious practices.By enabling students, researchers and academics to critically understand the complexity of religious places within the world of popular and devotional Islam, this geographical re-mapping of Muslim religious gatherings in contemporary South Asia contributes to a new understanding of South Asian and Islamic Studies.
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AutorBoivin, Michel (Hrsg.) / Delage, Remy (Hrsg.)
VerlagTaylor & Francis Ebooks
EinbandAdobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Seitenangabe211 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Abbildungen4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Masse2'072 KB
Auflage15001 A. 1. Auflage
PlattformEPUB
Verlagsartikelnummer9780415657501
ISBN978-1-317-37999-7

Über den Autor Michel (Hrsg.) Boivin

Michel Boivin is the former Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. He is currently a member of the Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH), previously known as the Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS). Historian and anthropologist, he devotes his research to South Asia, especially the Sindhicate area, straddling Pakistan and India, and Director of the Centre for Social Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan. His previous publications include Devotional Islam in South Asia (2015, co-edited with Remy Delage), also published by Routledge.Manoël Pénicaud is Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is also a member of the former Institute of European Mediterranean and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC), now renamed as Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology (IDEAS), Aix-Marseille University, France. His research focuses on Pilgrimages Studies, cult of saints, shared holy places, interreligious dialogue, visual anthropology, and museology.

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