This book sheds light on the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (BMF), one
of North America's major Sufi movements, and one of the first to
establish a Sufi shrine in the region. It provides the first
comprehensive overview of the BMF, offering new insight into its
historical development and practices, and charting its establishment
in both the United States and Sri Lanka. Through ethnographic
research, Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism
shows that the followers of Bawa in the United States and Sri Lanka
share far more similarities in the relationships they formed with
spaces, Bawa, and Sufism, than differences. This challenges the
accepted conceptualization of Sufism in North America as having a
distinct “Americanness”, and prompts scholars to re-consider how
Sufism is developing in the modern American landscape, as well as
globally. The book focuses on the transnational spaces and ritual
activities of Bawa's communities, mapping parallel shrines and
pilgrimages. It examines the roles of culture, religion, and gender
and their impact on ritual embodiment, drawing attention to the global
range of a Sufi community through engagement with its distinct Muslim,
Hindu, Jewish, and Christian followers.
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Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350026704
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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