A moment of persuasion: travelling preachers and Islamic pedagogy in the Netherlands
In this article, I examine the discursive as well as embodied and sensorial forms of persuasion that undergird the formation of religious authority, Islamic authority in the Netherlands more specifically. I argue that particular momentary occasions can play important roles in facilitating the mobili...
Published in: | Culture and religion |
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2015]
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Culture and religion
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Netherlands
/ Islam
/ Authority
/ Itinerant preacher
/ Influence
/ Aesthetics
/ Religious pedagogy
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AH Religious education BJ Islam KBD Benelux countries |
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Summary: | In this article, I examine the discursive as well as embodied and sensorial forms of persuasion that undergird the formation of religious authority, Islamic authority in the Netherlands more specifically. I argue that particular momentary occasions can play important roles in facilitating the mobilisation of these discursive and non-discursive forms of persuasion. Based on a close reading of an event I participated in during my fieldwork among young Muslims in the Netherlands, the analysis focuses on such a key moment of persuasion, paradoxically characterised by a preacher's apparently failed attempt at conversion. Despite this failure, this preacher can be seen to have succeeded in offering his young Muslim audience a model of how to be a Muslim and of how to represent Islam to non-Muslims. Apart from contributing to anthropological debates on Islamic authority in Europe and religious persuasion more generally, I discuss an important new type of Islamic leaders - referred to here as 'travelling preachers' - and the new kinds of youth-centred settings of religious learning in which they operate. |
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ISSN: | 1475-5610 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2015.1058530 |