Sufis in Western Society (eBook, ePUB)

Global networking and locality
Redaktion: Dressler, Markus; Klinkhammer, Gritt; Geaves, Ron

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the development of Sufi movements that have migrated from their place of origin to become global religious networks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134105731
• Artikelnr.: 39420983

Autorenporträt

Ron Geaves is Professor of the Comparative Study of Religion at Liverpool Hope University. He has been researching Muslims in Britain since 1988 and is the current Chair of the Muslims in Britain Research Network. Markus Dressler teaches Religious and Islamic Studies at Hofstra University. His research focuses on the religious history of modern Turkey, religion and secularism theory, and formations of contemporary Sufism in Western societies. Gritt Klinkhammer is Professor of the Study of Religion at Bremen University, Germany. Her research focuses on diverse facets of Islam in Germany, on theory of secularization and modernity and contemporary forms of religion Western societies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Markus Dresser, Ron Geaves and Gritt Klinkhammer 2.
Glocalization of Religions: Plural Authenticities at the Centres and at the
Margins Peter Beyer 3. Global Sufism "Theirs and Ours" Marcia Hermansen 4.
Globalizing the Soundworld: Islam and Sufi music in the West Michael
Frishkopf 5. Pluralism and Authenticity: Sufi Paths in Post-9/11 New York
Markus Dressler 6. A Case of Cultural Binary Fission or Transglobal
Sufism?: The Transmigration of Sufism to Britain Ron Geaves 7. Playing with
Numbers: Sufi Calculations of a Perfect Divine Universe in Manchester
Pnina Werbner 8. The Emergence of Transethnic Sufism in Germany: From
Mysticism to Authenticity Gritt Klinkhammer 9. Growing up as a Sufi:
Generational Change in the Burhaniya Sufi Order Søren Christian Lassen 10.
Between Nations and Global Islam: Sufi Activities and Community Building
among Bosnian Muslims in Southern Sweden Catharina Raudvere and Ak Gai
11. The Reception of Sufi and Neo-Sufi Literature Mark Sedgwick