Embodying the Mahdi: Islamic Messianism and the Body in Colonial Senegal
This study explores modern Islamic messianism as a mode of tajdid, or religious renewal, during the colonial era. It analyzes the case of a nineteenth-century religious movement among the Lebou people of the Cap-Vert peninsula in French West Africa, now Senegal, known as the Layene Brotherhood (La C...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2020]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-61 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Laye, Seydina Mouhamadou Limâmou 1845-1909
/ Layennes
/ Mahdi
/ Bodiliness
/ Colonialism
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam FD Contextual theology KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KCD Hagiography; saints NBF Christology NBK Soteriology TJ Modern history |
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Messianism
B Islam B Senegal B Colonialism B Body |
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