[URBANTH-L]New Book on Islam in Senegal with transnational focus
Leichtman, Mara
Mara.Leichtman at ssc.msu.edu
Fri Jan 30 12:47:20 EST 2009
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New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal
Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity
Edited by Mamadou Diouf and Mara A. Leichtman
Palgrave MacMillan, January 2009
http://us.macmillan.com/newperspectivesonislaminsenegal
Drawing together contributions from history, anthropology, sociology, political science and religious studies, this collection of original essays interrogates the new structures and conditions of Islam in Senegal, locally and globally. This volume represents a break from the established literature on "Senegalese Islam," and brings fresh perspectives, alternative methodologies and provocative theories on transnational Islam, religious conversion, revisionist histories, and patterns of conspicuous consumption in relation to gender and Islam. Chapters highlight discourses and practices in the context of broadly defined sites: conversion, education, politics and economics, sexuality, popular culture and architecture, and their impact on the multiple and changing articulations of Muslim identities.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Mamadou Diouf and Mara A. Leichtman
SECTION 1: HISTORIES, ETHNOGRAPHIES AND PEDAGOGIES OF ISLAM
Chapter 1: The Longue Durée of Quranic Schooling, Society and State in Senegambia, Rudolph T. Ware
Chapter 2: The Shifting Space of Senegalese Mosques, Cleo Cantone
Chapter 3: Murid Modernity: Historical Perceptions of Islamic Reform, Sufism and Colonization, John Glover
SECTION 2: CONVERSION AND SPIRITUAL TRANSLATIONS
Chapter 4: The Greater Jihad and Conversion: Sereer Interpretations of Sufi Islam, James Searing
Chapter 5: The Authentication of a Discursive Islam: Shi'a Alternatives to Sufi Orders, Mara A. Leichtman
Chapter 6: Searching for God: Young Gambian Conversion to the Tabligh Jama'at, Marloes Janson
SECTION 3: GENDER, MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY
Chapter 7: Migration, Marriage and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial Casamance, Aly Dramé
Chapter 8: Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, Religious Authority and the Global Circuits of Senegalese Muridiyya, Beth A. Buggenhagen
Chapter 9: Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity, Erin Augis
SECTION 4: MODERNITY, POLITICS AND DIALECTICS
Chapter 10: Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal, Roman Loimeier
Chapter 11: Islam, Protest and Citizen Mobilization: New Sufi Movements, Fabienne Samson
Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Middle East and Asian languages and cultures and History Department an Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University in New York.
Mara A. Leichtman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Muslim Studies at Michigan State University.
Mara Leichtman
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Michigan State University
310 Baker Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Tel: (517) 432-7048
Fax: (517) 432-2363
mara.leichtman at ssc.msu.edu
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