Tolerance, democracy, and Sufis in Senegal /

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Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 282 pages)
Language:English
Series:Religion, culture, and public life
Religion, culture, and public life.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12539749
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Other authors / contributors:Diouf, Mamadou, editor.
ISBN:0231530897
9780231530897
9780231162623
0231162626
9780231162630
0231162634
Digital file characteristics:text file
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
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Summary:This collection critically examines?tolerance, "?secularism," and respect for religious?diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious organizations. Through a rich and nuanced historical ethnography of the formation of Senegalese democracy, this anthology illumin
Other form:Print version: Tolerance, democracy, and Sufis in Senegal. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013 9780231162623
Standard no.:10.7312/diou16262