1st Edition
Global Flows, Local Appropriations Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims
By Sindre Bangstad
Copyright 2007
354 Pages
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Routledge
Global Flows, Local Appropriations; Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims is the first ethnographic study of muslims in Cape Town, South Africa at this level in 25 years. It explores processes of secularisation and re-islamization among Cape Muslims in the context of a post-apartheid South Africa in which liberal and secular values have attained... Read more
Summary in English, Samenvatting in het Nederlands (Dutch Summary), Citations, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, A note on nomenclature, spelling and transliteration, Ch. 1: Global Flows, Local Appropriations, 3 Ch. 2: Africanising Islam, Ch. 3: Polygyny in Transition, Ch. 4: La'a Taqrabuna al-Zina and Beyond, Ch. 5: Asserting The Rights of Muslim Prisoners, Ch. 6: Global Flows, Local Appropriations, Conclusions, Notes, References, List of interviewees cited, Glossary, Appendices
Biography
Sindre Bangstad has been engaged in ethnographic research on Cape muslims since 1998. He graduated with a cand.polit. degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen in Norway and has been a PhD Fellow at International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden since 2003.
