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Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011-2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of the existential anxieties and stalled expectations that inevitably accompany such hopes. Drawing on many years of study in Egypt and the life stories of rural, lower-middle-class men before and after the revolution, Schielke views recent events in ways that are both historically deep and personal. Sc

Egyptians --- #SBIB:39A77 --- Ethnology --- Political activity --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- Egypt --- Social conditions --- Rural conditions --- History --- Politics and government --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Conditions rurales --- Conditions sociales --- Politique et gouvernement

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Arabische Golf-Staaten. --- Arbeitsmigranten. --- Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Foreign workers, Asian --- Foreign workers, Asian. --- Migrant labor --- Migrant labor. --- Arab countries --- Arab countries. --- Golfstaaten. --- Middle East --- Persian Gulf Region

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As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world. Sacred locality has thus become a paradigm for the relationship between the human and the transcendent, a model for urban planning, regional networks, imaginary spaces, and spiritual hierarchies alike. This importance of saintly places has, however, become increasingly complicated and troubled by reformist currents within Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of modern archeology and anthropology, on the other. While they have often tended to posit ›the local‹ in opposition to ›the universal‹, in this volume islamologists, anthropologists, and sociologists offer new ways of thinking about the local, the place, and the conceptual landscapes and spaces of saints. In this, its eighth volume, the Yearbook for the Sociology of Islam looks at different sites and regions around the Muslim world (notably Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Southeast Asia) not as ›localized‹ versions of a universal Islam, but as constitutive of one particular outlook of the universalizing order of a world religion.

Islam --- Burkina Faso. --- Egypt. --- Ethiopia. --- Islam. --- Islamic Shrines. --- Islamic Studies. --- Religious Studies. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Sociology. --- South-East Asia. --- Space. --- Modern Islam; Islamic Shrines; Egypt; Ethiopia; South-East Asia; Burkina Faso; Islam; Space; Islamic Studies; Sociology of Religion; Religious Studies; Sociology --- Muslim saints. --- Islamic saints --- Saints, Muslim --- Sufi saints --- Saints --- Modern Islam --- Islamic Shrines --- Egypt --- Ethiopia --- South-East Asia --- Burkina Faso --- Space --- Islamic Studies --- Sociology of Religion --- Religious Studies --- Sociology

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Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act

Migration, Internal --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Middle East --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration and immigration. --- migration; imaginations; expectations; motivations

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Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.

Religious life.