Global Flows, Local Appropriations Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims

• Main Author: Bangstad, Sindre (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam University Press 2007
• Series: ISIM Dissertations
• Subjects: Sociology & anthropology; anthropology; sociologie; muslims in south africa, islam in south africa, cape muslims, anthropology of muslims, secularisation, re-islamization, conversion to islam, polygyny, muslims and hiv/aids in south africa, islam in prisons; anthropologie; sociology
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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 cont...