TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shobhana Xavier,Merin
TI  - Sacred spaces and transnational networks in American sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and contemporary shrine cultures 
T2  - Islam of the global west
SN  - 9781350026704
AV  - BP188.8.U6 S46 2018eb
U1  - 297.40973 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa.
KW  - Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa
KW  - Sufism
KW  - United States
KW  - Islamic shrines
KW  - Soufisme
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Sanctuaires musulmans
KW  - Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
KW  - Sufism & Islamic mysticism
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Charting Bawa's ministries from Jaffna to Pennsylvania -- From the ashram to mankumban: everyday practices amongst Bawa's Sri Lankan followers -- From the masjid to the mazar: rituals and spaces in the American fellowship -- Women in Bawa's ministries from Jaffna to Pennsylvania -- Swami to qutb: Bawa as al-insan al-kamil
N2  - "This book sheds light on the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (BMF), one of North America's major Sufi movements, and one of the first to establish a Sufi shrine in the region. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the BMF, offering new insight into its historical development and practices, and charting its establishment in both the United States and Sri Lanka. Through ethnographic research, Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism shows that the followers of Bawa in the United States and Sri Lanka share far more similarities in the relationships they formed with spaces, Bawa, and Sufism, than differences. This challenges the accepted conceptualization of Sufism in North America as having a distinct "Americanness", and prompts scholars to re-consider how Sufism is developing in the modern American landscape, as well as globally. The book focuses on the transnational spaces and ritual activities of Bawa's communities, mapping parallel shrines and pilgrimages. It examines the roles of culture, religion, and gender and their impact on ritual embodiment, drawing attention to the global range of a Sufi community through engagement with its distinct Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian followers."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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