Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands: Death Rites in a Small Town Context: 3 (Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology) - Softcover

Venhorst, Claudia

 
9783643903518: Muslims Ritualising Death in the Netherlands: Death Rites in a Small Town Context: 3 (Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3643903510 ISBN 13: 9783643903518
Publisher: Lit Verlag, 2013

Synopsis

This study on the common practice of Islamic death rites in the Netherlands affords valuable insights in the lived religion of Muslims. Particularly in a small town context marked by migration and diversity, Muslims are challenged to re-imagine and re-invent their ritual repertoire. This results in dynamic ritual practices that are the product of vibrant negotiation processes in which rites interact with ritual actors and their (changing) contexts. The emerging ritual repertoire and their dynamics are widely overlooked in an institutionalized and traditional religion like Islam. (Series: Death Studies. Nijmegen Studies in Thanatology - Vol. 3)

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Publisher
Lit Verlag
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3643903510
ISBN 13 
9783643903518
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
168