The Ashura Assemblage: Karbala’s Religious Urban Fabric and Reproduction of Collective Shiʿi Identity

Assemblage theory complicates an already extensive literature on religious urbanity, cultural heritage, the social construction of space and the power of place. Nevertheless, the concept can be applied to social and religious history in locations such as West Asia. As this paper argues, avoiding dic...

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Main Author: Parkes, Aidan (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 10
Further subjects:B Historical Sociology
B Shiʿi Islam
B Collective identity
B Karbalā'
B assemblage theory
B Ashura
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