عنوان

Public Spaces/Muslim Places:

شماره

LA107477

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Public Spaces/Muslim Places:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Locating Sierra Leonean Muslim Identity in Washington, D.C.

نام نخستين پديدآور

JoAnn D'Alisera

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In this paper I explore the way in which Muslim space is produced in public venues to become a tangible medium through which Sierra Leonean Muslims living in Washington, D.C. reflect upon the harmonies and tensions of life in the city. I ask how secular sites such as work spaces, street corners and sidewalks are remade by a multiplicity of sanctifying patterns of action that are performed in conscious tension with the way American public spaces are normally perceived. I illustrate the complex ways that spatial practices that emplace the sacred onto mundane sites creates complex social fields in which Sierra Leoneans negotiate the social relations and practical knowledge of their world. In so doing, I show that sacred meaning and significance can coalesce in any place that becomes a site for intensive religious interpretation and thus essential locations of self-reflection and self-constitution in cities. In this paper I explore the way in which Muslim space is produced in public venues to become a tangible medium through which Sierra Leonean Muslims living in Washington, D.C. reflect upon the harmonies and tensions of life in the city. I ask how secular sites such as work spaces, street corners and sidewalks are remade by a multiplicity of sanctifying patterns of action that are performed in conscious tension with the way American public spaces are normally perceived. I illustrate the complex ways that spatial practices that emplace the sacred onto mundane sites creates complex social fields in which Sierra Leoneans negotiate the social relations and practical knowledge of their world. In so doing, I show that sacred meaning and significance can coalesce in any place that becomes a site for intensive religious interpretation and thus essential locations of self-reflection and self-constitution in cities.

تاريخ نشر

2010

توصيف ظاهري

93-109

عنوان

African Diaspora

شماره جلد

3/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1872-5465

اصطلاح موضوعی

cities

اصطلاح موضوعی

Muslim diaspora

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sierra Leonean

اصطلاح موضوعی

Washington, D.C

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

JoAnn D'Alisera

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/187254610X505673

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y