Tolerance, democracy, and Sufis in Senegal / edited by Mamadou Diouf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diouf, Mamadou.

Series:

Religion, culture, and public life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Senegal.

Islam.

Sufism--Senegal.

Sufism.

Religion.

Social conditions.

Senegal--Social conditions.

Senegal.

Senegal--Religion.

Physical Description:

viii, 282 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Summary:

This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious organizations. The anthology provides a rich and nuanced historical ethnography of the formation of Senegalese democracy, illuminating the complex trajectory of the Senegalese state and reflecting on similar postcolonial societies. Offering rare perspectives on the country's "successes" since liberation, the volume identifies the role of religion, gender, culture, ethnicity, globalization, politics, and migration in the reconfiguration of the state and society, and it makes an important contribution to democratization theory, Islamic studies, and African studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

The public role of the "good Islam": sufi Islam and the administration of pluralism;. a Senegalese story / Mamadou Diouf

A secular age and the world of Islam / Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Islam's new visibility and the secular public / Beth A. Buggenhagen

Dakar's Sunnite women: the dialectic of submission and defiance in a globalizing city / Erin Augis

Sovereign Islam in a secular state: hidden knowledge and sufi governance among "taalibe baay" / Joseph Hill

The Senegalese 'social contract' revisited: the Muridiyya muslim order and state politics / Cheikh Anta Babou

Religion, ethnicity and the state: the triadic configuration of tolerance / Etienne Smith

Islam, the originaires and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal / Mamadou Diouf

Stateness, democracy, and respect: Senegal in comparative perspective / Alfred Stepan

Negotiating Islam in the era of democracy: Senegal in comparative regional perspective / Leonardo A. Villalon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0231162634

9780231162623

0231162626

9780231162630

9780231530897

0231530897

OCLC:

794366571

Publisher Number:

99952190697