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Title Culture of Hope in West Africa | ||
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http://hdl.handle.net/1887/17000 | ||
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Date 2005 | ||
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Author(s) Graw, K. | ||
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Abstract Divination is one of the most resistant institutions of ritual life in West African countries such as Senegal and Gambia. Rather than being practised at the margins of an Islamic orthodoxy, Senegambian divination is embedded in and integrating other forms of Islamic ritual. By focusing on the existential value of these practices rather than on their outward formal aspects, divination and Islam come into view as sharing in the construction of a cultural space of hope and prospect that allows the subject to deal with his or her most urgent concerns, predicaments, and afflictions. | ||
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Subject(s) West Africa | ||
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Language en_US | ||
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Publisher ISIM, Leiden | ||
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Type of publication Article / Letter to editor | ||
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Format 111294 bytes; application/pdf | ||
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Source 16; 1; 28; 29; 2; ISIM Review | ||
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Repository Leiden - University of Leiden 
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