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Title: | Urban Migration, Cash Cropping and Calamity. The Spread of Islam among the Diola Boulouf, 1900-1940 |
Author: | Mark, Peter |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 1-14 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | Islamic history Diola History and Exploration Urbanization and Migration Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/523658 |
Abstract: | The spread of Islam among the Diola of Boulouf in the period 1900-1940 was in large measure a response to the establishment of French colonial administration and the introduction of a cash economy. Islamisation was further prompted by a conjuction of individual motivation and collective response to a changing environment. The early stages of conversion were characterized by individual initiative. During the 1920s and 1930s, conversion becomes a Beans for young men who had entered the cash economy through urban migration or the sale of peanuts to attain higher social status. The more rapid Islamisation of Boulouf after about 1933 represents a collective response to the apparent powerlessness of indigenous religion to alleviate the economic and agricultural crises of the period 1929-1935. This led, finally, to a late stage when pressure to conform stimulated conversion and made Islam into the dominant religion of Boulouf. Notes, refs., maps. |