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Is Prose Poetry a Conspiracy Against the Noble Qur'an? Poetics, Humans, and God in Contemporary Egypt
Ist Prosadichtung eine Verschwörung gegen den heiligen Koran? Poetik, Menschen und Gott im zeitgenössischen Ägypten
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Abstract There is a peculiar relationship between contemporary poetry and perspectives that are deemed to be heretical by conservative audiences. This relationship is not fully accounted for by current anthropological theories of the secular. The field of literature has been successfully studied as a secular... mehr
There is a peculiar relationship between contemporary poetry and perspectives that are deemed to be heretical by conservative audiences. This relationship is not fully accounted for by current anthropological theories of the secular. The field of literature has been successfully studied as a secular institution – both in the sense of the differentiation of institutions as well as in the sense of the subordination of the religious to the political. Such secularity appears as a rather safe, less controversial way to claim the power of some human entities in relation to God. Some poetry, by contrast, may be accused of heresy or unbelief even when written with pious intention. This suggests a dimension to being secular that is more offensive to conservative societal sensibilities, as it contrasts with deeply-held views on the proper form of the God-human relationship and the associated imaginaries, languages, and aesthetics. Based on a combination of ethnographic research in historical context and a theoretical focus on aesthetics and imagination of divine power as a constituent of human lives, it is proposed in this article that in addition to looking at state power, institutions, and the creation of a secular aesthetic normality, it is also necessary to look more closely at issues of faith, including heretical faith.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Religionskritik; Ketzer; Koran; Säkularisierung; Ethnographie; Ethik; Islam; Belletristik; Ägypten; Spiritualität; Glaube; politische Macht; Ästhetik; Gegenwart
Klassifikation
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Poetry; literature; secularism; heresy
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 101-126
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 3
Heftthema
Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)