A Ritual Demystified: The Work of Anti-wonder among Sufi Reformists and Traditionalists in a Macedonian Roma Neighborhood

This article describes how an iconic mystical Sufi ritual of body wounding, zarf, was stripped of its mystical credentials and conventional efficacy amid tensions between Rifai reformists and traditionalists in a small Roma neighborhood in Skopje, Macedonia. The death of a sorcerer and a funeral eve...

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Main Author: Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Berghahn [2019]
In: Religion and society
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 30-43
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Skopje / Roma (People) / Sufism / Ritual / Reform movement / Demythologizing
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
KBK Europe (East)
Further subjects:B Demystification
B Rifai Sufism
B zarf
B socialist secularism
B Macedonia
B anti-wonder
B Islamic Reformism
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