Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance: The Muslim Pilgrims' Paradox

ISBN-13: 9781107191853 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str.

Mikhail Alexseev; Sufian Zhemukhov

Opis

This book develops a new theory of the conditions under which in-group pride can facilitate out-group tolerance.

Recenzje

'In this unusual book two co-authors with different academic, cultural, and religious backgrounds set out to directly explore the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, a major collective ritual practiced by humans. They go beyond the classical Durkheimian insight that rituals generate social solidarity and demonstrate, empirically as we as theoretically, that such solidarity could even transcend the boundaries of religion itself.' Georgi Derluguian, New York University, Abu Dhabi

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The Pilgrims' Paradox: 1. Russia's North Caucasus: the State, the Hajj, and the revival of the sacred; 2. The paths of the paradox: from passion to tolerance; 3. The Hajj as social identity and social capital; Part II. The Hajj Model of Social Tolerance: 4. Repositioning or the axis mundi effect; 5. Recategorization; 6. Repersonalization; Part III. Beyond the Hajj: 7. Islam's social spaces: Europe vs the United States; 8. The la raza axis: Hispanic integration in North America; 9. Conclusion.