A Ritual Demystified: The Work of Anti-wonder among Sufi Reformists and Traditionalists in a Macedonian Roma Neighborhood
This article describes how an iconic mystical Sufi ritual of body wounding, zarf, was stripped of its mystical credentials and conventional efficacy amid tensions between Rifai reformists and traditionalists in a small Roma neighborhood in Skopje, Macedonia. The death of a sorcerer and a funeral eve...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Berghahn
[2019]
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| In: |
Religion and society
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 30-43 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Skopje
/ Roma (People)
/ Sufism
/ Ritual
/ Reform movement
/ Demythologizing
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBK Europe (East) |
| Further subjects: | B
Demystification
B Rifai Sufism B zarf B socialist secularism B Macedonia B anti-wonder B Islamic Reformism |
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