Calls of Islam - Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco

Informationen zum Autor Emilio Spadola is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University. Klappentext Emilio Spadola is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University. Zusammenfassung Offers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Calls of Islam 1. Calls from the Unseen 2. Nationalizing the Call: Trance, Technology and Control 3. Our Master's Call 4. Summoning in Secret: Mute Letters and Veiled Writing 5. Rites of Reception 6. Trance-Nationalism; or the Call of Moroccan Islam 7. "To Eliminate the Ghostly Element between People:" The Call as ExorcismEpilogue: The Arab Spring, the Monarchy's Call

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• Authors: Emilio Spadola, Spadola Emilio
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.12.2013
• EAN: 9780253011374
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01137-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Public Cultures of the Middle; Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous