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Title: | Beyond 'Mouridcentrism': lived Islam in the context of Senegalese migrations |
Authors: | Sobczyk, Rita Soriano, Rosa |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | African Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World (ISSN 1872-5457) |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 174-199 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Senegal Spain |
Subjects: | Senegalese diasporas migrants Sufism social networks |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/18725465-00802002 |
Abstract: | This paper applies a 'lived religion' perspective to analyze how Islam is defined, practised and experienced by Senegalese migrants in Spain. The study enters into a dialogue with the existing scholarship on religion in the context of Senegalese mobility which, to a great extent, has been centred on the Mouride brotherhood. It adds to the general debate on how to analyze 'lived religion' by challenging the conceptualization of religion as organizational belonging. It is argued that in migration studies 'Mouridcentrism' has contributed to the partial invisibility of the social relations and networks formed outside this Sufi order. The findings show that interconnections among Senegalese frequently play a more significant role than brotherhood affiliation in shaping relations on a micro-level. Religion emerges as a vehicle which frequently serves to reaffirm these community dynamics influencing socio-cultural, economic and political aspects of migrants' everyday experience. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |