RT Article
T1 Staging Touba: The Performance of Piety
JF Journal of religion in Africa
VO 48
IS 4
SP 312
OP 346
A1 Kingsbury, Kate 1980-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/170269450X
AB Touba, in Senegal, is the equivalent to Mecca for Sufi Mouride Muslims, who embark on an annual pilgrimage called Le Grand Magal to celebrate the founder of their faith, Cheikh Amadou Bamba. When devotees describe their sacred city they frequently compare Touba to heaven, juxtaposing it to the materiality and chaos of other Senegalese cities, as though it was distinct from these lieux. Yet Touba shares many similarities in terms of its economic importance with other metropolises. Mourides despite presenting themselves as a united religious community, have differences of opinion and even praxis. This paper explores the imagination of Touba and the Mouride order by Mourides, positing that the sacred sites of Touba comprise a stage for the performance of piety and the generation of a particular Mouride ontology through which they see Touba, their order and the world.
K1 Africa
K1 Magal
K1 Mourides
K1 Pilgrimage
K1 Religion
K1 Senegal
K1 Touba
DO 10.1163/15700666-12340150