Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal

Informationen zum Autor Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History at Columbia University. His many publications include New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion! Migration! Wealth! Power! and Femininity! coedited with Mara A. Liechtman and Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances! coedited with Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo. Klappentext This collection critically examines 'tolerance'! 'secularism'! and respect for religious 'diversity' within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: The Public Role of the "Good Islam": Sufi Islam and the Administration of Pluralism. A Senegalese Story (Mamadou Diouf) 2. A Secular Age and the World of Islam (Souleymane Bachir Diagne) 3. Islam's New Visibility and the Secular Public (Beth A. Buggenhagen) 4. Dakar's Sunnite Women: The Dialectic of Submission and Defiance in a Globalizing City (Erin Augis) 5. Sovereign Islam in a Secular State: Hidden Knowledge and Sufi Governance Among "Taalibe Baay" (Joseph Hill) 6. The Senegalese 'Social Contract' Revisited: the Muridiyya Muslim Order and State Politics (Cheikh ANta Babou) 7. Religion! Ethnicity and the State: the Triadic Configuration of Tolerance (Etienne Smith) 8. Islam! the Originaires and the Making of the Public Space in a Colonial City: Saint Louis of Senegal (Mamadou Diouf) 9. Stateness! Democracy! and Respect: Senegal in Comparative Perspective (Alfred Stepan) 10. Negotiating Islam in the Era of Democracy: Senegal in Comparative Regional Perspective (Leonardo A. Villalon) Glossary Contributors

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• Authors: Diouf, Mamadou Diouf, Mamadou (Director of the Institute of Afric Diouf
• Assisted by: Mamadou Diouf (Editor), Diouf Mamadou (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2013
• EAN: 9780231162630
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16263-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Religion, Culture, and Public
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Senegal, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, RELIGION / Islam / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, RELIGION / Islam / Sufi, HISTORY / Africa / West, Politics & government, Politics and government, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities