Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474467474 ISBN 13 : 9781474467476

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Explores Muslim religious oratory across time, culture and media Explores the huge variety of Muslim religious oratory in Muslim majority and minority contexts Calls attention to a shared discursive tradition Combines analyses of political and ideological uses of oratory with a focus on its ritual aspects and ramifications Emphasises the impact of various types of media for the authoritative power of religious oratory Stresses the symbolic power of religious oratory and its impact on cultural and national identity Preaching has been central to Muslim communities throughout the centuries. The liturgical Friday sermon is a prime example, although other genres that are less commonly known also serve important functions. This book addresses the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to authoritative tradition in 21st-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society. This is the first book of its kind to look at homiletics beyond a specific country focus. Taking into consideration the historical developments of Muslim preaching, it offers a collection of thoroughly contextualised case studies of oratory in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Sweden and the USA. The analyses presented here show shared emphasis on struggles for legitimacy, efforts to speak authoritatively, as well as discursive opportunities and constraints. Notes on ContributorsJonathan P. Berkey, James B. Duke Professor of History, Davidson College, USA. Linda G. Jones, Associate Professor of History, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Laila Makboul, University of Oslo, Norway. Susanne Olsson, Professor of History of Religions, Stockholm University, Sweden. Catharina Raudvere, Professor of History of Religions, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Jan Retsoe, Professor emeritus of Arabic, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Simon Stjernholm, Associate Professor of History of Religions, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Elisabeth OEzdalga, Professor of Sociology, Senior Researcher at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Sweden and Turkey.

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À propos de l'auteur

Simon Stjernholm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He publishes in both Danish and English and his research previously appeared in a number of key Anglophone journals, including the Journal of Muslims in Europe, Journal of Contemporary Religion, and Religion. He has also contributed to a number of edited volumes, including Francesco Piraino & Mark Sedgwick's Global Sufism (Hurst & Co, 2019) and Ron Geaves & Theodore Gabriel's Sufism in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2013). This is his first edited volume in English. Elisabeth OEzdalga is a Professor and Senior Researcher at The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She is the author of The Veiling Issue, Official Secularism, and Popular Islam in Modern Turkey (Curzon, 1998) and a (co-)editor of eleven collected volumes, including Novels and Nations in the Muslim World (with Daniella Kuzmanovic, Palgrave, 2015) as well as Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy (Routledge, 2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474467474
• ISBN 13: 9781474467476
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Stjernholm Simon, Özdalga Elisabeth
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