Islamic Sermons and Public Piety in Bangladesh
Title | Islamic Sermons and Public Piety in Bangladesh PDF eBook |
Author | Max Stille |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2020-05-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1838606017 |
Islamic sermon gatherings are a central form of public piety and public expression in contemporary Bangladesh. Held since the 19th century, waz mahfils became so popular that it is today possible to participate in them on a daily basis in many regions of the country. Despite their significance in the rise of popular politics, the sermons are often disregarded as Islamist propaganda and very little research is dedicated to them. This book provides unprecedented access into these sermon gatherings. Based on fieldwork and interviews, Max Stille analyses an archive of several dozens of sermons. He shows how popular preaching shapes roles and rules of what can be said, imagined, and felt. Waz mahfils are a participatory practice of the labouring classes in which religious, political and poetic consensus overlap. In them, Islamic tenets and morals are part of dramatic narrations, vocal art and affective communication, ranging from immersion and upheaval to laughter about political jokes and parody. Suggesting new ways to interpret musical and performative poetics of Islamic speech, this book calls for expanding conceptions of civic participation and public discourse, and rethinking the role of the senses and religious aesthetics in Islam.
Islamic Sermons and Public Peity in Bangladesh
Title | Islamic Sermons and Public Peity in Bangladesh PDF eBook |
Author | Max Stille |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Bangladesh |
ISBN | 9781838606039 |
"Islamic sermon gatherings are a central form of public piety and public expression in contemporary Bangladesh. Held since the 19th century ,waz mahfils became so popular that it is today possible to participate in them on a daily basis in many regions of the country. Despite their significance in the rise of popular politics, the sermons are often disregarded as Islamist propaganda and very little research is dedicated to them. This book provides unprecedented access into these sermon gatherings. Based on fieldwork and interviews, Max Stille analyses an archive of several dozens of sermons. He shows how popular preaching shapes roles and rules of what can be said, imagined, and felt. Waz mahfils are a participatory practice of the labouring classes in which religious, political and poetic consensus overlap. In them, Islamic tenets and morals are part of dramatic narrations, vocal art and affective communication, ranging from immersion and upheaval to laughter about political jokes and parody. Suggesting new ways to interpret musical and performative poetics of Islamic speech, this book calls for expanding conceptions of civic participation and public discourse, and rethinking the role of the senses and religious aesthetics in Islam."--
Islamic Sermons and Public Piety in Bangladesh
Title | Islamic Sermons and Public Piety in Bangladesh PDF eBook |
Author | Max Stille |
Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2020-05-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781838606015 |
Islamic sermon gatherings are a central form of public piety and public expression in contemporary Bangladesh. Held since the 19th century, waz mahfils became so popular that it is today possible to participate in them on a daily basis in many regions of the country. Despite their significance in the rise of popular politics, the sermons are often disregarded as Islamist propaganda and very little research is dedicated to them. This book provides unprecedented access into these sermon gatherings. Based on fieldwork and interviews, Max Stille analyses an archive of several dozens of sermons. He shows how popular preaching shapes roles and rules of what can be said, imagined, and felt. Waz mahfils are a participatory practice of the labouring classes in which religious, political and poetic consensus overlap. In them, Islamic tenets and morals are part of dramatic narrations, vocal art and affective communication, ranging from immersion and upheaval to laughter about political jokes and parody. Suggesting new ways to interpret musical and performative poetics of Islamic speech, this book calls for expanding conceptions of civic participation and public discourse, and rethinking the role of the senses and religious aesthetics in Islam.
Asia & Pacific Review
Title | Asia & Pacific Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Asia |
ISBN |
The Clash of Fundamentalisms
Title | The Clash of Fundamentalisms PDF eBook |
Author | Tariq Ali |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2003-04-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781859844571 |
In this timely and important book, new in paperback, Tariq Ali is lucid, eloquent, literary and painfully honest as he dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.
Islam and Development in Bangladesh
Title | Islam and Development in Bangladesh PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Hours |
Publisher | |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Islam |
ISBN |
The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World
Title | The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World PDF eBook |
Author | Linda G. Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2012-08-06 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 110702305X |
A remarkable book analysing the importance of oratory for transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising rulers and inculcating moral values in the medieval Islamic world.