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

• Main Author: van de Bruinhorst, G.C (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam University Press 2007
• Series: ISIM Dissertations 4
• Subjects: Sociology & anthropology; anthropology; sociologie; animal sacrifice, tanzania, ritual, swahili, islam, social identity, textual authority; anthropologie; sociology
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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....