2020
DOI: 10.1017/s0001972019001074
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Addressing drought through rural religious communities in Senegal

Abstract: Severe ecological changes across the Sahel have created a difficult environment for agriculture and rural village economies. Rural communities, while small in scale, are creating new ways to transform their degraded environment. Their small size allows them to develop location-specific strategies to manage and improve water, soil and agriculture. This article focuses on two Sufi communities (daaras) in Senegal that integrate environmental work and spirituality. Religious organizations are influential in Senega… Show more

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“…Ndem's daara is Baay Fall, a suborder of the Muridiyya that teaches that labor is a form of prayer. This belief, controversially to non–Baay Falls, equates labor to one of the pillars of Islam: salat , praying five times a day (Cochrane 2020, 340–41). Creating a livable place in a degraded environment is religiously motivated: It is caring for God's creation and God's people.…”
Section: Community Partnerships Within a Religious Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ndem's daara is Baay Fall, a suborder of the Muridiyya that teaches that labor is a form of prayer. This belief, controversially to non–Baay Falls, equates labor to one of the pillars of Islam: salat , praying five times a day (Cochrane 2020, 340–41). Creating a livable place in a degraded environment is religiously motivated: It is caring for God's creation and God's people.…”
Section: Community Partnerships Within a Religious Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For about three‐quarters of the film, we see children participating in economic activities. Even if most of these are crafts that are deeply rooted in the cultures of rural West Africa (Chalfin, 2004; Cochrane, 2012; MacGaffey, 2009), including weaving (Cochrane, 2012), shea‐butter (Chalfin, 2004) and oil‐making and blacksmithing (MacGaffey, 2009), and even if children are doing these activities alongside their parents; they are economic activities that in classical economics would therefore be defined as work. This creates a tension between the representation, which concurs with the local view, and its reception.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%