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Between Jihād and History: Reconceptualizing the Islamic Revolutions of West Africa
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, West Africa witnessed a series of “Islamic revolutions.” ScholarsScholars have often approached...
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Islam and Globalization in Africa
Islam has been present in all the principal racesRace and nations of the worldWorld. The continentContinent of Africa is not left out of in this...
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Private Islamic Education in Africa
This chapter examines the history of the madrasasMadrasas in Africa and the multiple attempts to reformReform and controlControl them throughout the...
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Black Africans in Arabic Sources: A Critical Assessment of Method and Rhetoric
Blacks of African background played a pioneering role in the intellectual and political life of pre-Islamic Arabia. Their presence weighs heavily on...
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Introduction
The chapter provides an overview of the studies on Islam in Africa, highlighting some hurdles the field faced, the progress made, and the challenges...
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Moving Forward in Reverse Gear? Sexuality, Dress and Public Spaces in Harare
This study argues that Pentecostalism has contributed to certain patriarchal tendencies in Zimbabwe, which stir violence in the forms of verbal abuse...
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Covert Violence: Counting Cultural Trauma at the Intersection of ATR, Islam, and Neoliberalism in Africa
This chapter will deal with the relationship between trauma and mental health of loss of culture and will hopefully put another nail in the coffin to...
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Religious Leadership and Mobility: Revisiting the Legacy of Al-Ḥājj Salim Suwari
The chapter focuses on Al-Ḥājj Salim SuwariAl-Ḥājj Salim Suwari, an icon in West Africa’s Islamic historyHistory(ies). In the Mande worldMande world,...
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Islam in Europhone African Literature
The chapter begins with a surveySurvey of the historyHistory of Islam in SenegalSenegal/Senegalese to illustrate the complexity of the relationship...
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Methodologies Adopted in the Study of Religion
New methodological questions have necessitated a redefinition of religion and religious change. Since the pioneering work of Christian missionaries...
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Aleister Crowley and Islam
Little has been written on the relationship between one of the most prominent personalities of modern Western esotericism, Aleister Crowley...
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Finding Peace, Claiming Place: Black South African Women Navigating the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
One of the best-known stories of Mormonism in South Africa centers on the faith and patience of Moses Mahlangu and a small group of black South...
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The Spirit of Dis/Continuity
The introduction discusses the primary research questions to be addressed in this study, in particular the question of to what extent Pentecostalism...
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Battling a ‘War within a War’: Challenges of Being Female in Africa
Violence is a common phenomenon the world over, and it is about power, control, and the domination of the other. Gender-based violence is a social...
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World Jewish Population, 2019
At the beginning of 2019, the world’s Jewish population was estimated at 14,707,400—an increase of 100,900 (0.69%) over the 2018 revised estimate. As...
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Divination, Healing, and Deliverance
This discusses solutions to trouble, sickness, and misfortune, including deliverance from witchcraft-induced affliction, that are used by traditional...
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Introducing Urban Kenya’s Religious Market
This chapter offers an introduction to Christian identity in Kenya both in the past and at present, thus laying out the groundwork for later...
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The Ambiguity of Ancestors
This chapter deals with the central role of ancestors and ancestor commemoration in African religions, manifesting itself in the interpretation of...
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Muhammadiyah vs. Mammon: The Economic Trials and Tribulations of an Islamic Modernist Mass Organization in Indonesia (1990s–2000s)1
The emergence of Commercialized Islam is seen as a significant development that illustrates how Muslim societies adapt to modern capitalism. This...
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Towards an Evaluation of Pentecostal and Charismatic Political Engagement Post the Chiluba Era (2001–2012)
This chapter deals mainly with PentecostalPentecostal political involvement post the ChilubaChiluba era and considers whether their spirituality...