to bloom That which destroys us This torn apart Undivided earth On which We travel together. — Rose Ausländer, “ Gemeinsam /Together” Each year, many Inayati Sufis gather for a summer school in a village in northern Germany that
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Learning the Elsewhere of ‘Inner Space’
The Affective Pedagogy of Post-Secular Sufi Healing in Germany
Nasima Selim
Critical Thin
Haunting Sufis and the Also-Here of Migration in Berlin
Omar Kasmani
“It is really a key to another world.” On this ostensibly simple yet lucid note, Onur summed up for me the expansive character of Zikr , the Sufi exercise of a mindful remembrance of Allah. He was one of 30 regular attendees at a German
Politicizing Elsewhere(s)
Negotiating Representations of Neo-Pentecostal Aesthetic Practice in Berlin
Dominik Mattes
to establish branches across the globe, including 15 congregations in Germany, and William Kumuyi eventually became the general superintendent of what is claimed to be one of the largest churches in the world ( Akoda 2012: 403) . The group in Berlin
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The Elsewhere beyond Religious Concerns
Annalisa Butticci and Amira Mittermaier
to step outside of the silos we have come to call ‘anthropology of Islam’ and ‘anthropology of Christianity ’. The articles take us to Germany, Lebanon, Norway, and Iran. Each tells a very particular story of engagements with the Elsewhere (or
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Elsewhere Affects and the Politics of Engagement across Religious Life-Worlds
Omar Kasmani, Nasima Selim, Hansjörg Dilger, and Dominik Mattes
(German: unheimlich, bordering on the unfamiliar) enjoys a renewed popularity in the anthropology of religion ( Goslinga 2012 ; Morgain 2012 ), in examining “the frightening … that ought to have remained … secret and hidden but has come to light
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Talal Asad, Jonathan Boyarin, Nadia Fadil, Hussein Ali Agrama, Donovan O. Schaefer, and Ananda Abeysekara
-only concentration camp, and my mother was interned three years later in a family camp. It was there that my father eventually joined us for the remainder of the war. The camp's inmates were largely German speakers, with a sprinkling of Italians. But the labels used
From the Throes of Anguished Mourning
Shi‘i Ritual Lamentation and the Pious Publics of Lebanon
Fouad Gehad Marei
by a fellowship of the German Orient-Institut in Beirut (OIB). Notes 1 I use ‘Shi‘i’, the adjective form derived from Arabic, to denote an attribute of a proper or common noun. This article examines how Shi‘i rituals, beliefs, and experiences
The Christian Right and Refugee Rights
The Border Politics of Anti-communism and Anti-discrimination in South Korea
Angie Heo
and Anticommunist Reaction .” Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2 ( 1 ). Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40856-017-0018-1 . 10.1186/s40856-017-0018-1 Kim , Hyŏn-mi . 2018 . “ Nanmin p'obiawa Han'guk chŏngch'ijŏk chŏngdongŭi
How to Conceptualize an Introductory Course on the Academic Study of Religion
Systematic Reflections and Exemplary Answers
Johannes Quack
University of Munich, which offers a non-denominational Interfaculty Programme for the Study of Religion that engages historically and comparatively with various religious traditions. The program has been well known in Germany for its ambitious first
Natalia Buitron and Hans Steinmüller
charismatic authority. 12 Regarding this ‘standing order’, it is interesting to note that the etymology of ‘state’ in English (as well as French état , German Staat , Italian stato , and Spanish estado ) goes back to Old French estat ‘position