This paper applies a ‘lived religion’ perspective to analyze how Islam is defined, practised and experienced by Senegalese migrants in Spain. The study enters into a dialogue with the existing scholarship on religion in the context of Senegalese mobility which, to a great extent, has been centred on the Mouride brotherhood. It adds to the general debate on how to analyze ‘lived religion’ by challenging the conceptualization of religion as organizational belonging. It is argued that in migration studies ‘Mouridcentrism’ has contributed to the partial invisibility of the social relations and networks formed outside this Sufi order. The findings show that interconnections among Senegalese frequently play a more significant role than brotherhood affiliation in shaping relations on a micro-level. Religion emerges as a vehicle which frequently serves to reaffirm these community dynamics influencing socio-cultural, economic and political aspects of migrants’ everyday experience.
INTRODUCCIÓNLa renovación conceptual desarrollada en las últimas décadas por la historiografía en el ámbito de la familia, ha transformado notablemente las cuestiones, modelos y aproximaciones que se han venido proyectando y realizando, en especial, desde la historia social. A través de los últimos trabajos y estudios sobre el tema 1 , puede observarse que el interés por las estructuras y las instituciones se ha ido desplazando hacia las interacciones e interrelaciones dentro de un contexto definido por los recorridos individuales y su integración en las diferentes esferas de la vida social, entre las que destaca la historia de las mujeres 2 . El Concilio de Trento (1545-1563) fijó un modelo matrimonial y familiar que organizó la sociedad del siglo XVI en las regiones católicas. El matrimonio quedaba como sacramento de la nueva alianza a través de su carácter unitario (que representaba
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