RT Article
T1 Sharedness as Belonging: Hospitality, Inclusion, and Equality among the Layene of Senegal
JF Religion and society
VO 12
IS 1
SP 191
OP 202
A1 Riley, Emily
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1824156960
AB This article draws on in-depth ethnographic research with the Layene (People of God), a little-studied Sufi Muslim community based in Dakar, the present-day Senegalese capital. My analysis of everyday and ritual performances serves as a way to understand what it means to be Layene, a community guided by particular (re)interpretations of equality, community ethics, and religious practice and discourse. I focus primarily on how the Layene reinterpret the Wolof concept of teraanga (hospitality/prestation) as constituting a kind of "radical sharedness", which is viewed as the ethical foundation of the Layene faith. My study uses ethnographic research with Layene community members, discourse analysis of written and spoken Layene sermons and sikr (invocations of God), and content from Layene community websites to examine how specific ritual performances bring about religious communion as well as social change.
K1 Hospitality
K1 Layene
K1 Religious Practice
K1 Ritual
K1 Senegal
K1 sharedness
K1 Sufi Muslims
K1 teraanga
DO 10.3167/arrs.2021.120115