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'Raise your voices and kill your animals': Islamic discourses on the Idd el-Hajj and Sacrifices in Tanga (Tanzania) ; authoritative texts, ritual practices and social identities
[Dissertation]
Abstract This research analyses how groups of people in Tanga discursively construct Islam by animal slaughter. Central to the project are the sometimes conflicting tendencies of grounding ritual practice in authoritative texts and constructing ethnic, social, and religious identity through ritual practices.... mehr
This research analyses how groups of people in Tanga discursively construct Islam by animal slaughter. Central to the project are the sometimes conflicting tendencies of grounding ritual practice in authoritative texts and constructing ethnic, social, and religious identity through ritual practices. The discourse on and the practice of daily animal slaughter at the abattoir, sacrifice as part of the annual hajj, the slaughter of sheep after the birth or death of a child, and the Swahili New Year sacrifice all reproduce assumptions of what Islam and Islamic behaviour should be.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Identität; Islam; Religiosität; Ritual; Tansania; Afrika
Klassifikation
Religionssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Anthropology
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2007
Verlag
Amsterdam Univ. Press
Erscheinungsort
Amsterdam
Seitenangabe
582 S.
Schriftenreihe
ISIM Dissertations
ISBN
978-90-5356-946-7
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung