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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea -Bissau and Portugal
Abstract
dc:description"The dynamic interplay between Mandinga personhood and religious identity is currently being played out through life course rituals, including the naming of infants, the ""writing-on-the-hand"" ceremony, initiation and circumcision, Islamic healing, pilgrimage, and funerals. It is also creating tensions between men and women, elders and youth, and between ""traditionalists""---those who practice a syncretic version of Islam---and those who uphold Islam as practiced in Saudi Arabia as a ""truer"" or ""purer"" path."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Anthropology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Johnson, Michelle Cecilia
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Gottlieb, Alma
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3044128
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85243