Author: Achmat DavidsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Mosques of Bo-Kaap
Author: Achmat DavidsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Bo-Kaap
Author: Michael HutchinsonPublisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864866936
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Bo-Kaap contains a wealth of stories; of slavery and emancipation, far away exotic lands, food and spices, music and culture, and most of all everyday life.
History of Muslims in South Africa
Author: Ebrahim Mahomed MahidaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Bo-Kaap and Islam
Author: Ursula StevensPublisher:
ISBN: 9780958495196
Category : Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Language in Cape Town's District Six
Author: Kay McCormickPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198235545
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The book is a sociolinguistic case study of District Six, an inner-city neighbourhood in Cape Town characterized by language mixing and switching of English and Afrikaans. Its early inhabitants included indigenous people, freed slaves of African and Asian origin, and immigrants from Europe andelsewhere. The ravages of apartheid affected the residents' attitudes towards their languages in various ways, which are described. The book examines the norms and practices regarding language choice for various functions and domains in the only surviving sector of District Six. It also containsdetailed analyses of extended bilingual conversations showing a range of social, linguistic and discourse features. Of particular interest is the paradoxical polarization and blending of the two languages. They are strongly polarized symbolically and functionally, yet they are also habituallyblended in vernacular speech through lexical borrowing and intrasentential language switching. This paradox has interesting implications for the construction of individual, community and language identity.
Muslim Identities and Political Strategies
Author: Heinrich MattheePublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3899584066
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Guide to the Kramats of the Western Cape
Author: Cape Mazaar (Kramat) SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
Author: W. G. Clarence-SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195221510
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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Seeing Religion
Author: Roman R. WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317677803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The potential of visual research methods in the sociology of religion is vast, but largely untapped. This comes as a surprise, however, given the visual, symbolic, and material nature of religion and spirituality. Evidence of religious faith and practice is materially present in everything from clothing and jewelry to artifacts found in people’s homes and workplaces. Not only is religion’s symbolic and material presence palpable throughout society, it also informs attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of countless people worldwide. Words-and-numbers approaches to social research, however, sometimes miss important dimensions of religion and spirituality in the contemporary world. Seeing Religion is an invitation to a visual sociology of religion. Contributors draw from their current research to discuss the application of visual methods to the study of religion and spirituality. Each chapter stimulates the sociological imagination through examples of research techniques, analytical approaches, and methodological concerns.
Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940)
Author: Anne K. BangPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004276548
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. The impact of Sufism on local communities is here traced geographically as a ripple reaching beyond the Swahili cultural zone southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and Cape Town. Through an investigation of the texts, ritual practices and scholarly networks that went alongside Sufi expansion, this book places religious change in the western Indian Ocean within the wider framework of Islamic reform.