Marta Dominguez Diaz

Women in Sufism (eBook, ePUB)

Female Religiosities in a Transnational Order

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book is a comparative study of the Budshishiyya Order in Morocco and Western Europe. It examines the embodied expressions of Sufism by looking at the ways in which religious discourses are bodily endorsed, by exploring the religious body in movement, in performance and in relation to the social order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317806578
• Artikelnr.: 41834251

Autorenporträt

Marta Dominguez Diaz is Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies (Anthropology) at the University of StGallen, Switzerland. Her research interests include North-African Sufism, Islam in Europe, Ritual Studies, Religious Healing, Comparative Religion and Muslim-Jewish Relations. She has published a number of articles on Sufism and on ritual studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 A Historical Overview 3 The Budshishiyya Today 4 The Budshishiyya Online 5 Ziyara 6 Ritual 7 Healing 8 Final Caveats