RT Article
T1 Calling to Prayer in ‘Pandemic Times’: Muslim Women’s Practices and Contested (Public) Spaces in Germany
JF Entangled Religions
VO 12
IS 3
A1 Pfeifer, Simone
LA English
PB Ruhr-Universität Bochum
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1822882303
AB This article explores how the regulations imposed during Germany’s first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 impacted on gendered mosque spaces and the digital spheres relating to those spaces. Examining the call to prayer as a sensory form that establishes "aesthetic formations" (Meyer 2009), the article unpacks gender-specific Muslim perspectives on space within mosques and the contested position mosques occupy in German public space. Paying particular attention to the temporalities of the pandemic restrictions, the article reflects on women’s (digital) practices and relates them to ongoing debates about the contested presence of sonic markers of Muslim religiosity in public space in Germany. It argues that the heterogeneous digital practices and discourses that emerged in ‘pandemic times’ should not only be viewed as extraordinary responses to an exceptional situation, but as exemplary of ongoing debates over gendered Muslim spaces and publicness in Germany.
K1 Covid-19
K1 Islam in Germany
K1 Muslim Women
K1 anti-Muslim racism
K1 call to prayer
K1 digital ethnography
K1 digital practices
K1 gendered spaces
DO 10.46586/er.12.2021.9933