- Title
- Everyday Religion and the Complexity of Islamic Space
- Creator
- Blanch, Samuel
- Relation
- Journal for the Academic Study of Religion Vol. 35, Issue 3, p. 340-360
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jasr.19233
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- The turn to ‘everyday religion’ has disrupted the so-called ‘Muslim problem’, suggesting modes of multiculturalism located not in abstract principles of citizenship but grounded in the concrete practices of local communities. In this article, however, I offer two critiques of the literature on everyday religion in Australia. First, the literature has limited itself to discursive methodologies, largely ignoring material aspects of the everyday. Second, I show how studies of everyday religion assume multiculturalism’s location in a given public space. Drawing on ethnography from the Shia Muslim community of Sydney, I show how Shia practices of visual pilgrimage leverage an understanding of complex space that transforms everyday experience. I argue that allowing for diversity requires not merely an attentiveness to different discourses in the public sphere; it requires an allowance for difference at a deeper level, where everyday religion can generate complex alternative experiences ofspace itself.
- Subject
- everyday religion; shia islam; materiality; pilgrimage; citizenship
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1488308
- Identifier
- uon:52407
- Identifier
- ISSN:2047-704X
- Language
- eng
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