Sufi confraternities in the Litoral region: an ethnographic study on the processes of relocation of the sacred amongst Senegalese immigrants
The article addresses the process of relocation of the sacred carried out by members of the Mouridiyya -Muslim Sufi confraternities- who arrived in Argentina from the last decade of the twentieth century, as part of the Senegalese transnational migration. It presents results of an ethnographic study...
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Escuela de Antropología - FHyA
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/182 |
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| Sumario: | The article addresses the process of relocation of the sacred carried out by members of the Mouridiyya -Muslim Sufi confraternities- who arrived in Argentina from the last decade of the twentieth century, as part of the Senegalese transnational migration. It presents results of an ethnographic study located in the Litoral region, specifically in the cities of Santa Fe, Rafaela and Paraná. It analyzes and describes the mechanisms implemented by migrants to produce a new territory of reinterpretation of the principles that symbolize the core of the confraternities, focusing on the way in which Senegalese recreate the notion of community, also linked to work, tradition and religious rituals. Starting from the observation of the absence of mosques and institutionalized religious spaces and the importance given to religious practice among the mourides of the region, the question that guides this work is how the relocation and production of a new sacred territory in the local space is configured. |
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