Name: Muslims Through Discourse (en Inglés)
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Author: John R. Bowen
ISBN: 9780691028705

portada Muslims Through Discourse (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Autor

John R. Bowen

Año

1993

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

376

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0691028702

ISBN13

9780691028705

Categorías

Islam

Muslims Through Discourse (en Inglés)

John R. Bowen (Autor) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Blanda

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In this rich account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia, John Bowen describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be--as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship. Whereas many previous anthropological studies have concentrated on the purely local aspects of culture, this book captures and analyzes the tension between the local and universal in everyday life. Current religious differences among the Gayo stem from debates between "traditionalist" and "modernist" scholars that began in the 1930s, and reveal themselves in the ways Gayo discuss and perform worship, sacrifice, healing, and rites of birth and death, all within an Islamic framework. Bowen considers the power these debates accord to language, especially in arguments over spells, rites of farming, hunting, and healing. Moreover, he traces in these debates a general conception of transacting with spirits that has shaped Gayo practices of sacrifice, worship, and aiding the dead. Bowen concludes by examining the development of competing religious ideas in the highlands, the alternative ritual forms and ideas they have pro-mulgated, and the implications of this phenomenon for the emergence of an Islamic public sphere.