Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138687288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 270 str.

Meena Sharify-Funk; William Rory Dickson; Merin Shobhana Xavier

Opis

Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics and Popular Culture brings to light the religious frameworks that shape the views of Sufism’s friends, adversaries, admirers, and detractors and in the process, helps readers better understand the diversity of contemporary Sufism, the pressures and cultural openings to which it responds, and the many divergent opinions about contemporary Sufism’s relationship to Islam. 

O autorze

Meena Sharify-Funk is Associate Professor and the Chair of the Religion and Culture Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

William Rory Dickson is Assistant Professor of Islamic Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.

Merin Shobhana Xavier is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College, USA.