Sharedness as Belonging: Hospitality, Inclusion, and Equality among the Layene of Senegal
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 guide...
| Outros títulos: | "Special Section: Reimagining Sharedness" |
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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2021
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Religion and society
Ano: 2021, Volume: 12, Número: 1, Páginas: 191-202 |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Hospitality
B Senegal B Sufi Muslims B Layene B Ritual B Religious Practice B sharedness B teraanga |
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| Resumo: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2150-9301 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2021.120115 |
