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Department of Religious Studies
Performance, trance, possession and mysticism : an analysis of the Rātib al-Rifāīyah in South Africa
Abstract
dc:description.abstractOur study is an advance as it elucidates the neurobiological aspects of Islamic ritual that is panspecific to all ritual. It reveals that Islamic ritual is remarkably 'structured'to enter what Felicitas Goodman termed 'alternate reality '. The recitals from the Qur'an provide 'sound art' through harmonic triggers for inducing trance
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- Department of Religious Studies
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1998
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Karim, Goolam Mohamed
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Chidester, David
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17489
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/17489