Remaking Islam in African Portugal: Lisbon—Mecca—Bissau
Author:   Michelle Johnson
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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Pages:   212
Publication Date:   01 September 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Michelle Johnson
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9780253049766


ISBN 10:   0253049768
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   01 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Faith and Fieldwork in African Lisbon Part 1: Remaking Islam through Life Course Rituals 2. Name-Giving and Hand-Writing: Childhood Rituals and Embodying Islam 3. Making Mandinga, Making Muslims: Initiation, Circumcision, and Ritual Uncertainty 4. Distant Departures: Funerals, Post-Burial Sacrifices, and Rupturing Place and Identity Part 2: Remaking Islam through Rituals Beyond the Life Course 5. Reversals of Fortune: From Healing-Divining to Astrology 6. ""Welcome Back from Mecca!"": Reimagining the Hajj Epilogue: Faith, Food, and Fashion: Religion in Diaspora Bibliography Index

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Remaking Islam in African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe and how Guinean migrants' relationships to their ritual practices must change as they remake themselves and their religion. * Portuguese American Journal *


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Michelle C. Johnson is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in religion and ritual in West Africa and among African immigrants in Europe. She has conducted extensive fieldwork with Muslims in Guinea-Bissau and with Guinean Muslim immigrants in Lisbon, Portugal. She has held grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Department of Education (Fulbright-Hays), and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and has authored numerous articles and book chapters, including ""'Never Forget Where You're From': Raising Guinean Muslim Babies in Portugal"" in A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies and ""'Nothing Is Sweet in My Mouth': Food, Identity, and Religion in African Portugal."" She is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University. She was awarded the 2019 Class of 1956 Lectureship for Inspirational Teaching.

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