Maraboutic Resistance and Popular Culture in the Arab Spring of Morocco

This article examines the hybridity of maraboutic and popular cultural forms in the recent social uprising in Morocco. Adapting a famous Weberian metaphor of the “railroad switch gear,” we display how new revolutionary social potentials are lived out and experienced in old cultural patterns. We argu...

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Main Author: Maarouf, Mohammed (Author)
Contributors: Willis, Paul (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2016]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 123-134
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Morocco / Arab Spring / Marabout / Everyday culture / Social change
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Islamism
B popular Islam
B Morocco
B the February 20 movement
B Subaltern consciousness
B maraboutism
B Saints
B Arab Spring
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