Author: Emilio Spadola
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253011450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
“A theoretically sophisticated reading of the mediation of social and spiritual relationships in Fez.” —Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once-marginal Sufi practices such as spirit trance and exorcism for ordinary believers, the state, and Islamist movements. The Calls of Islam offers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world. “A superb demonstration of anthropological analysis at its best. A major contribution to our understanding of the complicated nexus of religion, nationalism, and technology.” —Charles Hirschkind, author of The Feeling of History “An instructive contribution to the literature on Morocco’s socio-cultural and political idiosyncrasies.” —Review of Middle East Studies “Spadola’s dense but short study . . . manages admirably well to deal with a complex topic, skillfully balancing ethnographic and analytic elements.” —American Ethnologist “[The] tension between social classes is subtly drawn out throughout this exemplary book, and Spadola also does a magnificent job tying local, national, and transnational contexts together. Although writing about a very specific place and time, he manages to capture post-millennial anxieties about Islam and belonging that are far reaching in their scope.” —Contemporary Islam “Spadola’s book is theoretically sophisticated, skillfully constructed, and rich in detail.” —Journal of Religion
The Calls of Islam
Author: Emilio Spadola
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253011450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
“A theoretically sophisticated reading of the mediation of social and spiritual relationships in Fez.” —Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once-marginal Sufi practices such as spirit trance and exorcism for ordinary believers, the state, and Islamist movements. The Calls of Islam offers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world. “A superb demonstration of anthropological analysis at its best. A major contribution to our understanding of the complicated nexus of religion, nationalism, and technology.” —Charles Hirschkind, author of The Feeling of History “An instructive contribution to the literature on Morocco’s socio-cultural and political idiosyncrasies.” —Review of Middle East Studies “Spadola’s dense but short study . . . manages admirably well to deal with a complex topic, skillfully balancing ethnographic and analytic elements.” —American Ethnologist “[The] tension between social classes is subtly drawn out throughout this exemplary book, and Spadola also does a magnificent job tying local, national, and transnational contexts together. Although writing about a very specific place and time, he manages to capture post-millennial anxieties about Islam and belonging that are far reaching in their scope.” —Contemporary Islam “Spadola’s book is theoretically sophisticated, skillfully constructed, and rich in detail.” —Journal of Religion
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253011450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
“A theoretically sophisticated reading of the mediation of social and spiritual relationships in Fez.” —Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once-marginal Sufi practices such as spirit trance and exorcism for ordinary believers, the state, and Islamist movements. The Calls of Islam offers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world. “A superb demonstration of anthropological analysis at its best. A major contribution to our understanding of the complicated nexus of religion, nationalism, and technology.” —Charles Hirschkind, author of The Feeling of History “An instructive contribution to the literature on Morocco’s socio-cultural and political idiosyncrasies.” —Review of Middle East Studies “Spadola’s dense but short study . . . manages admirably well to deal with a complex topic, skillfully balancing ethnographic and analytic elements.” —American Ethnologist “[The] tension between social classes is subtly drawn out throughout this exemplary book, and Spadola also does a magnificent job tying local, national, and transnational contexts together. Although writing about a very specific place and time, he manages to capture post-millennial anxieties about Islam and belonging that are far reaching in their scope.” —Contemporary Islam “Spadola’s book is theoretically sophisticated, skillfully constructed, and rich in detail.” —Journal of Religion
The Call of Africa
Author: Morrell F. Swart
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802846150
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Volume 29 records the story of the RCA's first fifty years of mission in sub-Saharan Africa, told through the eyes of a missionary who has worked for half a century in this difficult region of the world. A fascinating account of the church's work in a foreign land, this volume also includes twenty-seven illustrations and six maps of the sub-Sahara.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802846150
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Volume 29 records the story of the RCA's first fifty years of mission in sub-Saharan Africa, told through the eyes of a missionary who has worked for half a century in this difficult region of the world. A fascinating account of the church's work in a foreign land, this volume also includes twenty-seven illustrations and six maps of the sub-Sahara.
500 Common Bird Calls in Southern Africa
Author: Doug Newman
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 9781431701209
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Identify bird calls with this handy guide and CD of calls, which features 500 distinctive southern African species.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 9781431701209
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Identify bird calls with this handy guide and CD of calls, which features 500 distinctive southern African species.
The African Repository
Africa Calls
Author: Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (1883-1962)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
New Serial Titles
Student World
Author: John Raleigh Mott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church work with students
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Vol. 19, no. 1 consists of the Federation's Annual report, 1924/25.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church work with students
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Vol. 19, no. 1 consists of the Federation's Annual report, 1924/25.
Africa Calls Worldwide
The Epworth Era
Missionary Seer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description