Sufis in Western society : global networking and locality / edited by Ron Geaves, Markus Dressler, Gritt Klinkhammer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geaves, Ron.

Dressler, Markus

Klinkhammer, Gritt Maria

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge Sufi series ; 9.

Routledge Sufi series ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism--Europe.

Sufism.

Sufism--North America.

North America.

Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Markus Dressler, Ron Geaves, Gritt Klinkhammer 1

2 Glocalization of religions: plural authenticities at the centres and at the margins / Peter Beyer 13

3 Global Sufism: "theirs and ours" / Marcia Hermansen 26

4 Globalizing the soundworld: Islam and Sufi music in the West / Michael Fr1shkopf 46

5 Pluralism and authenticity: Sufi paths in post-9/11 New York / Markus Dressler 77

6 A case of cultural binary fission or transglobal Sufism? The transmigration of Sufism to Britain / Ron Oeaves 97

7 Playing with numbers: Sufi calculations of a perfect divine universe in Manchester / Pnina Werbner 113

8 The emergence of transethnic Sufism in Germany: from mysticism to authenticity / Gritt Klinkhammer 130

9 Growing up as a Sufi: generational change in the Burhaniya Sufi order / Sr̜en Christian Lassen 148

10 Home, nation and global Islam: Sufi oriented activities and community building among Bosnian Muslims in Southern Sweden / Catharina Raudvere, AŠk GaŠi 162

11 The reception of Sufi and neo-Sufi literature / Mark Sedgwick 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415457118

0415457114

9780203883648

0203883640

OCLC:

223867132