Marta Dominguez Diaz

Gebundenes Buch

Women in Sufism

Female Religiosities in a Transnational Order

Beschreibung

The book is a comparative study of the B¿dsh¿shiyya Order in Morocco and Western Europe. It examines the embodied expressions of Sufism by looking at the ways in which religious discourses are bodily endorsed, by exploring the religious body in movement, in performance and in relation to the social order.

Autor

Marta Dominguez Diaz is Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies (Anthropology) at the University of StGallen, Switzerland. Her research interests include North-African Sufism, Islam in Europe, Ritual Studies, Religious Healing, Comparative Religion and Muslim-Jewish Relations. She has published a number of articles on Sufism and on ritual studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415741736
• ISBN-10: 0415741734
• Artikelnr.: 40478609