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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.
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