New expressions of Islam in Tunisia

An Ethnographic Approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3979030
AutoresRikke Hostrup Haugbølle (University of Copenhagen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen20
Número3
Páginas319-335
Fecha de publicación2015-05-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629387.2015.1032270
OpenAlexW1994329154
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas23

This article analyses 'new expressions of Islam' in Tunisia before the popular uprising in 2010–2011. It does so from an ethnographic approach through which the researcher follows people as they go about their daily lives. The four 'new expressions' which constitute the framework of the analysis are new in the sense that they have not been presented before, have a twist to them in either message or form, and have attracted very little attention from scholars both inside and outside Tunisia. The article concludes that Islam did not disappear in the decades under President Bourguiba and Ben Ali's rule, but shifted from the public to the private realm; that pictures, sounds, and changes in the physical surroundings created by the regimes within the area of Islam were important factors for peoples' experience of being in society; that many Tunisians were searching for values which could counter other changes in society; and that society did not remain silent, passive, or immune to reforms launched by the regime, but reacted and responded in ways which were originally detached from the regime and politics

Archaeology · Ethnography · Geography · Islam · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Islamic Studies and History · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Religion, Society, and Development