RT Article
T1 Learning the Elsewhere of "Inner Space": The Affective Pedagogy of Post-Secular Sufi Healing in Germany
JF Religion and society
VO 11
IS 1
SP 105
OP 119
A1 Selim, Nasima
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1751609944
AB How is access to the Elsewhere facilitated through affective pedagogy in a contemporary Sufi setting in Germany? This article draws analytical lessons from Inayati healing seminars that took place in the summer of 2013. Participants were instructed to feel the Elsewhere of "inner space" in the material/corporeal realities by attuning to breath, sonic resonance, collective movement, and attentive listening. The affective pedagogy of the teacher extended the spatial-temporal coordinates of the Elsewhere (as framed by Mittermaier) to include "fleeting affects" among its unknown elements. These pedagogic tactics entangled religious and secular life-worlds with aesthetic and therapeutic traditions. Learning to feel the unknown affects emanating from the Elsewhere in this setting aimed to provide existential resources to cope with the everyday struggles of post-secular life.
K1 affective pedagogy
K1 Elsewhere
K1 fleeting affects
K1 Germany
K1 Healing
K1 Inayati Sufism
K1 post-secularity
DO 10.3167/arrs.2020.110108