Abstract:English abstract: This article describes and discusses an ongoing attempt to listen better to the meaning-making potential that is not only inherent in words, but also in human speech’s auditory dimensions. Through a presentation of three chronologically ordered phases of listening, with particular focus on various forms of Muslim preaching, a string of fruitful analytical paths for aurally oriented studies of religion are expounded. The empirical examples include listening practices within a contemporary Sufi… Show more
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