RT Book
T1 Dimensions of Locality: Muslim Saints, their Place and Space (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam No. 8)
T2 Globaler lokaler Islam
A2 Stauth, Georg
A2 Schielke, Samuli,
LA English
PP Bielefeld
PB transcript Verlag
YR 2008
ED 1. Aufl.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/840832001
AB As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world. Sacred locality has thus become a paradigm for the relationship between the human and the transcendent, a model for urban planning, regional networks, imaginary spaces, and spiritual hierarchies alike. This importance of saintly places has, however, become increasingly complicated and troubled by reformist currents within Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of modern archeology and anthropology, on the other. While they have often tended to posit 'the local' in opposition to 'the universal', in this volume islamologists, anthropologists, and sociologists offer new ways of thinking about the local, the place, and the conceptual landscapes and spaces of saints. In this, its eighth volume, the Yearbook for the Sociology of Islam looks at different sites and regions around the Muslim world (notably Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Southeast Asia) not as 'localized' versions of a universal Islam, but as constitutive of one particular outlook of the universalizing order of a world religion.
NO open access
CN BP190.5
SN 9783839409688
K1 Islam. Bahai Faith. Theosophy, etc
K1 Muslim Saints
K1 Andere Religionen
K1 Heiligenverehrung
K1 Heiligtum
K1 Islam
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
K1 Egypt
K1 Ethiopia
K1 Burkina Faso
K1 Islamic Shrines
K1 Islamic Studies
K1 Religious Studies
K1 Sociology of Religion
K1 Sociology
K1 South-East Asia
K1 Space
DO 10.1515/9783839409688