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Remaking Islam in African Portugal : Lisbon-Mecca-Bissau / Michelle C. Johnson.

"When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Johnson, Michelle C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Series:Framing the global book series.
Subjects:
Muslims > Portugal.
Islam > Portugal.
Muslims > Guinea-Bissau.
Islam > Guinea-Bissau.
Muslim women > Portugal.
Muslim women > Guinea-Bissau.
Guinea-Bissau > Relations > Portugal.
Portugal > Relations > Guinea-Bissau.
Muslims.
Muslim women.
International relations.
Emigration and immigration
Islam
Religion
Guinea-Bissau.
Portugal
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Faith and Fieldwork in African Lisbon
  • Part I. Remaking Islam through Life-Course Rituals: 2. Name-Giving and Hand-Writing: Childhood Rituals and Embodying Islam
  • 3. Making Mandinga, Making Muslims: Initiation, Circumcision, and Ritual Uncertainty
  • 4. Distant Departures: Funerals, Postburial Sacrifices, and Rupturing Place and Identity
  • Part II. Remaking Islam through Rituals beyond the Life Course: 5. Reversals of Fortune: From Healing-Divining to Astrology
  • 6. "Welcome Back from Mecca!": Reimagining the Hajj Epilogue: Faith, Food, and Fashion
  • Religion in Diaspora.

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