The Edge of Islam - 9780822344964
Un libro in lingua di Janet Mcintosh edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2009
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The Edge of Islam explores themes as wide-ranging as spirit possession, divination, healing rituals, madness, symbolic pollution, ideologies of money, linguistic code-switching, and syncretism and its alternatives. McIntosh shows how the differing versions of Islam practiced by Swahili and Giriama, and their differing understandings of personhood, have figured in the growing divisions between the two groups. Her ethnographic analysis helps to explain why Giriama view Islam, a supposedly universal religion, as belonging more deeply to certain ethnic groups than to others; why Giriama use Islam in their rituals despite the fact that so many do not consider the religion their own; and how Giriama appropriations of Islam subtly reinforce a distance between the religion and themselves. The Edge of Islam advances understanding of ethnic essentialism, religious plurality, spirit possession, local conceptions of personhood, and the many meanings of “Islam” across cultures.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Edge of Islam
- Sottotitolo: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Janet Mcintosh
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '09
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Ethnic conflict Kenya Malindi Religious aspects Swahili-speaking peoples Kenya Malindi Social life and customs Giryama (African people) Kenya Malindi Religion
- Pagine: 325
- Dimensioni mm: 158 x 234 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0822344963
- EAN-13: 9780822344964