Raise Your Voices and Kill Your Animals' Islamic Discourses on the Idd el-Hajj and Sacrifices in Tanga (Tanzania)

• প্রধান লেখক: van de Bruinhorst, G.C (auth)
• বিন্যাস: বৈদ্যুতিক গ্রন্থের অধ্যায়
• ভাষা: ইংরেজি
• প্রকাশিত: Amsterdam University Press 2007
• মালা: ISIM Dissertations 4
• বিষয়গুলি: Sociology & anthropology; anthropology; sociologie; animal sacrifice, tanzania, ritual, swahili, islam, social identity, textual authority; anthropologie; sociology
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This research analyses how groups of people in Tanga discursively construct Islam by animal slaughter. Central to the project are the sometimes conflicting tendencies of grounding ritual practice in authoritative texts and constructing ethnic, social, and religious identity through ritual practices....