regarded as the symbol of an urban national Wolof identity in Senegal. Senegal is home to numerous ethnic and linguistic communities; however, in urban centers, such as the former colonial capital Saint-Louis and the current capital Dakar, the preeminence
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Sharedness as Belonging
Hospitality, Inclusion, and Equality among the Layene of Senegal
Emily Jenan Riley
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- Research Article
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Introduction
Communities Reimagining Sharedness in Belief and Practice
Sarah Hillewaert and Chantal Tetreault
's “Sharedness as Belonging: Hospitality, Inclusion, and Equality among the Layene of Senegal,” is based upon in-depth ethnographic research with the Layene, a little-studied Sufi Muslim community based in Dakar, the present-day Senegalese capital. Riley
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 129–136 (8 total)
Julián Antonio Moraga Riquelme, Leslie E. Sponsel, Katrien Pype, Diana Riboli, Ellen Lewin, Marina Pignatelli, Katherine Swancutt, Alejandra Carreño Calderón, Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Sergio González Varela, Eugenia Roussou, Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Miho Ishii, Markus Balkenhol, and Marcelo González Gálvez
observations are made in Soothill's chapter on power and agency in charismatic churches in Accra (Ghana). The social and spiritual capital of the ‘pastor's wife’ depends on her husband. And converted women in Accra, who endure(d) abuse, violence, and marital
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- Book Review
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- 205–228 (24 total)
Weapons for Witnessing
American Street Preaching and the Rhythms of War
Kyle Byron
infrastructures as “built forms around which publics thicken.” Because of this association between roads and publics, streets are often implicitly coded and explicitly regulated as secular spaces, designed for the circulation of bodies and capital, not the
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- 61–74 (14 total)
Critical Thin
Haunting Sufis and the Also-Here of Migration in Berlin
Omar Kasmani
hands of saintly masters ( Dilger et al. 2018: 102 ; Selim 2015 ). But for a city described as the atheistic capital of Europe, saints are unlikely figures of occurrence. 11 Followers know that saints do not simply roam around Berlin, nor is saintly
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 56–69 (14 total)
Speaking in Celestial Signs
The Language of Western Astrology and the (Tenuous) Bonds of Occult Sociality
Omri Elisha
. Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor . Berkeley, CA : North Atlantic Books . Keane , Webb . 2007 . Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter . Berkeley : University of California Press
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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Amira Mittermaier
of resistance ( Abu-Lughod 1990 ; Boddy 1994 ). For Harding, too, the issue comes down to politics—a ghost did not bring up her secular defenses the way a god did, especially a god in the singular with a capital G that comes with a whole apparatus of
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 21–38 (18 total)
Portrait
Diana L. Eck
Diana L. Eck, John Stratton Hawley, Rahul Mehrotra, and Sondra L. Hausner
with an orientation of life and heart. Even in Middle English belief was ‘belove’. Gradually, the term came to have the more propositional meaning common today that contains a sense of uncertainty or error, such as “I believe Chicago is the capital of
Marla Frederick, Yunus Doğan Telliel, and Heather Mellquist Lehto
(2015), I argued that American religious broadcasting—with its emphasis on individualism, capital accumulation, and spiritual blessing—was no longer primarily the purview of white evangelical and charismatic preachers like Billy Graham, Oral Roberts