Overview

From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, Varieties of American Sufism immerses the reader in diverse expressions of contemporary Sufi religiosity in the United States. It spans more than a century of political, cultural, and embodied relationships with Islam and Muslims. American encounters with mystical Islam were initiated by a romantic quest for Oriental wisdom, flourished in the embrace of Eastern teachings during the countercultural era of New Age religion, were concretized due to late twentieth-century possibilities of travel and immigration to and from Muslim societies, and are now diffused through an explosion of cyber religion in an age of globalization. This collection of in-depth, participant-observation-based studies challenges expectations of uniformity and continuity while provoking stimulating reflection on a range of issues relevant to contemporary Islamic Studies, American religions, multireligious belonging, and new religious movements.

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Author:   Elliott Bazzano ,  Marcia Hermansen
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438477909

ISBN 10:   1438477902
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   02 January 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Marcia Hermansen 1. The Message in Our Time: Changing Faces and Identities of the Inayati Order in America Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond 2. The Golden Sufi Center: A Non-Islamic Branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya William Rory Dickson 3. The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship: Diverse Identities and Negotiated Spaces Merin Shobhana Xavier 4. A Shadhiliyya Sufi Order in America: Traditional Islam Meets American Hippies Elliott Bazzano 5. The Mevlevi Order of America Simon Sorgenfrei 6. From the Balkans to America: The Alami Tariqa in Upstate New York Julianne Hazen 7. ""There is an 'I' deeper than me"": The Ansari Qadiri Rifa'I Tariqa and Transcendence in America Melinda Krokus 8. When the Divine Flood Reached New York: The Tijani Sufi Order among Black American Muslims in New York City Rasul Miller Contributors Index"

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The blend of approaches (historical, ethnographic, documentary, etc.) provides a spectrum of methodologies for the study of Sufism in America. - Martin Nguyen, author of Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination

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Elliott Bazzano is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Le Moyne College. Marcia Hermansen, Professor of Theology and Director of Islamic World Studies at Loyola University Chicago, has written extensively on both South Asian and American Sufism, as well as trends in global Islam, including migration and gender studies.

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