This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism,"
and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political
system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis
of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and
dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public
spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with
the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious
organizations. The anthology provides a rich and nuanced historical
ethnography of the formation of Senegalese democracy, illuminating
the complex trajectory of the Senegalese state and reflecting on
similar postcolonial societies. Offering rare perspectives on the
country's "successes" since liberation, the volume identifies the
role of religion, gender, culture, ethnicity, globalization,
politics, and migration in the reconfiguration of the state and
society, and it makes an important contribution to democratization
theory, Islamic studies, and African studies.
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