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On Archaeology of Sainthood and Local Spirituality in Islam - Past and Present Crossroads of Events and Ideas (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 5) (Paperback)
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On Archaeology of Sainthood and Local Spirituality in Islam - Past and Present Crossroads of Events and Ideas (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 5) (Paperback)
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Saints, their places, the rituals of their veneration - the heroes
and martyrs they represent or to whom they are often connected with
- and the beliefs in their powers have often been described as
being counter-thematic to the constructive issues of modern society
in our times. However, in the Middle East - and certainly this is
true for many other world regions and other world religions - local
saints, Jewish, Christian and Islamic, have gained a very ambiguous
status in religious movements, political struggles and events of
social re-construction. In the case of Islam, perhaps more openly,
modernists and fundamentalists alike attempt to abolish or to
re-formulate the agenda of venerating the saints. However, at the
same time saints and their localities have become a sort of
overcharged symbolic incidence in the modern presence of Islam, in
politics, in the media and - perhaps on a more hidden ground - in
the struggle of ideas. In this volume historians, islamologists,
anthropologists and sociologists give a multiple description of the
inherent issues of the unhampered continuity of Muslim saints and
their significance. With this volume 5, the Yearbook of the
Sociology of Islam is linking empirical research on individual
saints (including cases from Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Syria and
Morocco) with the debates around Islam and modernity. Georg Stauth
teaches Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and has
widely published on Islam and Theory of Modernity.
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