Global Flows, Local Appropriations

Global Flows, Local Appropriations
Author: Sindre Bangstad
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9053560157

Global Flows, Local Appropriations; Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims is the first ethnographic study of muslims in Cape Town, South Africa at this level in 25 years. It explores processes of secularisation and re-islamization among Cape Muslims in the context of a post-apartheid South Africa in which liberal and secular values have attained considerable purchase in the new political and social elites. Fractured by status, ethnicity and religious orientation, Cape muslims have responded to these changes through an ambiguous accomodation with the new order. This study explores this development through chapters on conversions to Islam among black Africans in Cape Town, Cape women's experiences with polygyny, Cape muslims and HIV/AIDS, the status of Islam in a prison Cape Town in the post-apartheid era and on contestation over rituals among Cape muslims.

South African Women

South African Women
Author: University of Natal. Durban Women's Bibliography Group
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Digging Up Our Foremothers

Digging Up Our Foremothers
Author: Christina Landman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Stories of white and black religious women in Africa are told in a narrative fashion. Methodological essays are included which look critically at the question whether faith has two genders. Methods are offered on how to free women's historiography from the gender trap. However, this book does not offer gender and religion as the only two categories for interpreting the stories of religious women. Communicative skills, intelligence and physical adaptability are but a few of the aspects of being female and religious which are explore.