Remaking Islam in African Portugal : Lisbon--Mecca--Bissau.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- Framing the Global Series .
- Framing the Global Series .
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- 1. Faith and Fieldwork in African Lisbon -- Part I. 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, Postburial Sacrifices, and Rupturing Place and Identity -- Part II. 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 -- About the Author.
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.