Navigating the Religious in the Cosmopolitan: Displaced Muslim Female Identities in Camilla Gibb's Sweetness in the Belly
Sweetness in the Belly (2005) explores a new space which problematizes the intersections between religion, cosmopolitanism, and displacement. Camilla Gibb employs the trope of the journey to trace the ways in which the female protagonist, Lilly, transforms in a transnational context. The narrative d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Religion & gender
Year: 2024, Volume: 14, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 173-194 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gibb, Camilla 1968-, Sweetness in the belly
/ Muslim woman (Motif)
/ Sufism (Motif)
/ Cosmopolitanism
/ Religion
/ Mobility
/ Identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Cosmopolitanism
B Sufi Islam B Religion B Displacement B Muslim Women |
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| Summary: | Sweetness in the Belly (2005) explores a new space which problematizes the intersections between religion, cosmopolitanism, and displacement. Camilla Gibb employs the trope of the journey to trace the ways in which the female protagonist, Lilly, transforms in a transnational context. The narrative depicts multiple journeys that Lilly undertakes between the West and the East. Such geographical displacements are pivotal to her complex spiritual self-discovery. Lilly, a white Ethiopian Muslim, embraces Sufi Islam which helps her resist forms of alienation and discrimination. Therefore, as I argue in this paper, religion can be a constitutive component in the formation of female cosmopolitan subjectivity. Understanding cosmopolitanism as a disposition that is not necessarily secular in its orientation, this article investigates the transformative role of religion in the debates surrounding “new cosmopolitanism.” I argue that through Lilly’s journey, the narrative depicts religion as a central feature of cosmopolitan identity which disrupts the orientalist bent associated with East/West dichotomies. |
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| ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18785417-tat00003 |
