Maraboutic Resistance and Popular Culture in the Arab Spring of Morocco
This article examines the hybridity of maraboutic and popular cultural forms in the recent social uprising in Morocco. Adapting a famous Weberian metaphor of the railroad switch gear, we display how new revolutionary social potentials are lived out and experienced in old cultural patterns. We argu...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2016]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 123-134 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Morocco
/ Arab Spring
/ Marabout
/ Everyday culture
/ Social change
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa ZC Politics in general |
Further subjects: | B
Islamism
B popular Islam B Morocco B the February 20 movement B Subaltern consciousness B maraboutism B Saints B Arab Spring |
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