Raise Your Voices and Kill Your Animals' Islamic Discourses on the Idd el-Hajj and Sacrifices in Tanga (Tanzania)
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....
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Main Author: | van de Bruinhorst, G.C (auth) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
2007
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Series: | ISIM Dissertations
4 |
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Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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