Une nation pluraliste? Les limites du dialogue interconfessionnel chez les jeunes militants religieux à Ouagadougou

Audet-Gosselin, Louis

doi:10.1080/00083968.2015.1101009

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“…Since the fall of President Blaise Compaoré on 31 October 2014 following a popular uprising that put an end to his twenty-seven years of rule, Burkina Faso, a country often depicted as a model of peaceful coexistence between religions (Langewiesche 2011; Audet Gosselin 2016), has been affected by radicalization and various episodes of violence. Long spared by the Sahel's armed groups, the country now finds itself at the heart of the region's troubles and has suffered a growing number of terrorist attacks since 2016 (ICG 2017; Nsaibia 2018; Nsaibia and Caleb 2018).…”

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Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso

Madore¹

2020

Africa

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The attention paid to the security threats hanging over Burkina Faso, while legitimate, has overshadowed the underlying transformations in Islamic associational life since the fall of President Blaise Compaoré in October 2014. This major political upheaval had a significant impact on the participation of Muslims in socio-political debates, the relations between generations and, more widely, the bases upon which religious authority is claimed. This article analyses the competition for religious leadership between Islamic actors in the public sphere in Burkina Faso by focusing mainly on francophone ‘Muslim intellectuals’. First, the study shows the gap between the gerontocracy at the helm of the main Islamic associations and the Burkinabe youth, which widened throughout the 1990s and 2000s and came strongly to the fore after the popular uprising of October 2014. Second, taking advantage of the space left vacant by traditional community leaders during the transition process, some young francophone ‘Muslim intellectuals’ actively sought to portray themselves as the vehicles of a ‘civil Islam’ and strove to promote new forms of civic engagement through religion. Other Muslim organizations have also tried to take advantage of the new political context to strengthen their presence in the socio-political arena.

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Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso

Madore¹

2020

Africa

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“Political” Islam in Senegal and Burkina Faso: contrasting approaches to mobilization since the 1990s

Gomez-Perez

2016

Mediterranean Politics

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Une nation pluraliste? Les limites du dialogue interconfessionnel chez les jeunes militants religieux à Ouagadougou

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso

Francophone Muslim intellectuals, Islamic associational life and religious authority in Burkina Faso

“Political” Islam in Senegal and Burkina Faso: contrasting approaches to mobilization since the 1990s

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