Towards an economic model of virtuoso religion
Within the modern context of secularisation and urbanisation and the changing relationship between the state and the rural hinterland the chances of new forms of Islamic Sufism are explored. The central theme is that all virtuosity in religion requires economic support even where that source of econ...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mouton
1985
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Islamic dilemmas: reformers, nationalists, and industrialization
Year: 1985, Pages: 49-72 |
| Further subjects: | B
Islamische Länder / Islamische Welt
Islam
Sufism
Economic system
Religiöser Fundamentalismus
B Islam B Fundamentalism B Islamic countries B Sufism B Economic system |
| Summary: | Within the modern context of secularisation and urbanisation and the changing relationship between the state and the rural hinterland the chances of new forms of Islamic Sufism are explored. The central theme is that all virtuosity in religion requires economic support even where that source of economic support is highly despised by religious ideology. Will the masses of the urban poor and of the working-classes be able to provide such support or will social conditions be stacked against the emergence of new Sufi saints? It is argued that there may well emerge in popular Islam the worker-saint whose virtuosity is largely self-financed, but that it remains to be seen, whether he suffers the same fate as the worker-priest. In his attempt to provide an economic model of this new type of saintship, some individual cases are discussed as well as references made to the theoretical works of Marx and Weber. (DÜI-Asd) |
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| ISBN: | 311009763X |
| Contains: | In: Islamic dilemmas: reformers, nationalists, and industrialization
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