Meena Sharify-Funk, William Dickson, Merin Shobhana Xavier

Contemporary Sufism (eBook, ePUB)

Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics and Popular Culture brings to light the religious frameworks that shape the views of Sufism's friends, adversaries, admirers, and detractors and in the process, helps readers better understand the diversity of contemporary Sufism, the pressures and cultural openings to which it responds, and the many divergent opinions about contemporary Sufism's relationship to Islam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134879991
• Artikelnr.: 50533421

Autorenporträt

Meena Sharify-Funk is Associate Professor and the Chair of the Religion and Culture Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

William Rory Dickson is Assistant Professor of Islamic Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.



Merin Shobhana Xavier is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Chapter 1: Contextualizing the production of knowledge on
contemporary Sufism in the West. PART I: SUFISM AND ANTI-SUFISM IN
CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS. Chapter 2: Heart or heresy? The historical debate
over Sufism's place in Islam. Chapter 3: Contesting Sufism today:
Contemporary Sufi and anti-Sufi responses. PART II: CONTEMPORARY SUFISM IN
THE WEST: POETIC INFLUENCES AND POPULAR MANIFESTATIONS. Chapter 4: Sufism
in the eyes of the West: Colonialists, Romantics, and Transcendentalists.
Chapter 5: The era of Rumi: Contemporary Sufism and popular culture. PART
III. GENDERING SUFISM: TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION. Chapter 6: Perfecting
the self: Female Sufi saints in Islamic history. Chapter 7: "Women of
light": Contemporary female Sufi leaders. Conclusion: Discourses of
authenticity and complementary contradictions in contemporary Sufism