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Religion and Folk Cosmology: Scenarios of the Visible and Invisible in Rural Egypt

Autor el-Sayed el-Aswad
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 dec 2002 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This study refutes both the Western dominant paradigm of modernity and the Eurocentric stereotype of traditional Muslim culture, and demonstrates that rural Egyptians have their own paradigm of secular modernism that does not negate religious or sacred orientations. Islam is associated with ongoing attempts at religious purification and cultural unification and is inimical to cultural homogenization encouraged by Western globalization.Provides a holistic interpretation of the interplay between religion and folk cosmology, challenging the stereotypes that relegate traditional people to backwardness and a peripheral space or locality. Within this Muslim society the global/local nexus is one of ongoing creative integration, not separation. The cosmology can best be understood in the context of its totality, encompassing both visible and invisible zones.Muslims articulate personal or private order as well as social order within their cosmology. This cosmological view, endowing people with a unique imaginative sense of engagemenet with a supraphenomenal reality, accentuates the belief that divine cosmic invisible higher power surpasses any other power. Such a belief represents an inexhaustible source of spiritual and emotional empowerment that may be politically mobilized in certain critical moments and depicted as a religious, holy struggle, or jihad.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780897899246
ISBN-10: 0897899245
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

EL-SAYED EL-ASWAD is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Tanta University, Egypt, and Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University.

Cuprins

IntroductionThe Village in a Socio-Cosmic ContextThe Cosmos: The Visible and the InvisibleThe Hierarchical Microcosm: Visible and Invisible Aspects of the PersonSymbolic Exchange, Gender, and Cosmological ForceMultiple WorldsConclusionBibliography