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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
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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.... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Africa; Tanzania; Islam; identity; religiousness; ritual
Classification
Sociology of Religion
Free Keywords
Anthropology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Amsterdam Univ. Press
City
Amsterdam
Page/Pages
582 p.
Series
ISIM Dissertations
ISBN
978-90-5356-946-7
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works