New perspectives on Islam in Senegal: conversion, migration, wealth, power, and femininity

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. INDICE: Introduction; M.Diouf & M.A.Leichtman - PART I: THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PEDAGOGY OF ISLAM - The Shifting Space of Senegalese Mosques; C.Cantone - The Longue Durée of Qurb anic Schooling, Society and State in Senegambia; R.T.Ware - PART II: GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND SEXUALITY - Migration, Marriage, and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial Casamance; A.Drame - Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, Religious Authority, and the Global Circuits of Senegalese Muridiyya; B.A.Buggenhagen - Jambaar or Jumbax-out?: How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity; E.Augis - PART III: CONVERSION AND SPIRITUAL TRANSLATIONS - The Greater Jihad and Conversion: Sereer Interpretations of Sufi Islam; J.F.Searing - The Authentication of a Discursive Islam: Shib a Alternatives to Sufi Brotherhoods; M.A.Leichtman - Searching for God: Young Gambian Conversion to the Tabligh Jamab at; M.Janson - PART IV: MODERNITY, POLITICS,AND DIALECTICS - Murid Modernity: Historical Perceptions of Islamic Reform, Sufism and Colonization; J.W.Glover - Islam, Protest and Citizen Mobilization: New Sufi Movements; F.Samson-Ndaw - Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal; R.Loimeier

• ISBN: 978-0-230-60648-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 20/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés