The Sacrifice of 'Id al-kabir: Islam in the French Suburbs

Brisebarre, Anne-Marie

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“…39 These studies go into the meaning of the changed place of the sacrifice. Men can no longer do it at home with their own hands in the presence of the whole family.…”

Section: Rhythms Of Timementioning

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Time and migration: Changes in religious celebrations among Moroccan immigrant women in the Netherlands

Nieuwkerk¹

2005

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs

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The cultural reproduction of group identities in a diasporic and transnational setting can be analysed by looking into the ways ritual celebrations are reconstituted. Muslim religious celebrations such as ramadan, 'id al-fitr, 'id al-adha, sha'bana, 'ashura, and 'id al-mulud are studied among Moroccan immigrant women in the Netherlands in order to see how far they are transformed upon migration. Migration is usually perceived in spatial metaphors. In the context of bodily motion, space is privileged over time. Yet, in this study it also appeared that the sense of time, the knowledge of time, the availability of time, and the rhythm of time can change upon migration. First, the cosmo-political aspects of time are analysed. Controlling the calendar is control over time. Second, the connection between temporal schemes and identity and ethnicity is considered. Third, the dominance of clock time is studied. In the situation of migration this division of free time and working time is no longer synchronous with sacred time. Moreover, celebrations have a specific rhythm that can be out of tune with the rhythm in the country of migration. Lastly, the connection between the rhythms of sacred and socio-cultural time and ritual and bodily practices is analysed.

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“…39 These studies go into the meaning of the changed place of the sacrifice. Men can no longer do it at home with their own hands in the presence of the whole family.…”

Section: Rhythms Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Time and migration: Changes in religious celebrations among Moroccan immigrant women in the Netherlands

Nieuwkerk¹

2005

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs

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“…It is the way the sacrifice is given, the 'halal way', that establishes and 'cosmologically authenticates' (Weiner 1992) halal metavalue against which any other exchanges between villagers can be measured and made commensurable. 11 While writing about the feast of sacrifice, anthropologists of Islam have primarily paid attention to the very act of sacrifice, its public discourses and how the scriptural orthodoxies and local practices of the feast intersect or differ (Bowen 1992;Brisebarre 1993). What has been left largely unexplored is the rhythm of the entire sacrifice complex of which the act of sacrifice is part.…”

Section: Sacrifice As Halal Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Theologies of Abundance: Halal Exchange and the Limits of Neoliberal Effects in Post-war Bosnia–Herzegovina

Henig

2018

Ethnos

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This paper questions claims about the all-pervasive neoliberalization of everyday life that dominate many debates in anthropology and beyond. Situated in deprived rural areas of postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina where socioeconomic restructuring has led to a reduction in social redistribution and access to many once-guaranteed state provisions, I explore the workings of an Islamic economic theology of halal exchange that mediates divine abundance through an ethics of care and generosity. In a situation of increasing socioeconomic inequalities, the economic theology of halal exchange offers villagers a parallel logic of relating to the divine and to each other, as it is concerned with generosity and sharing rather than with the calculative logic of profit and accumulation. Ultimately, this paper addresses the way that specific reconfigurations of cultural values provide a significant basis for moral imagination, innovative practice and virtuous action at a time of radical change and uncertainty.

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“An abundance of meaning”: Ramadan as an enchantment of society and economy in Syria

Anderson

2018

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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The Sacrifice of 'Id al-kabir: Islam in the French Suburbs

Cited by 9 publications

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Time and migration: Changes in religious celebrations among Moroccan immigrant women in the Netherlands

Time and migration: Changes in religious celebrations among Moroccan immigrant women in the Netherlands

Economic Theologies of Abundance: Halal Exchange and the Limits of Neoliberal Effects in Post-war Bosnia–Herzegovina

“An abundance of meaning”: Ramadan as an enchantment of society and economy in Syria

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