Laura L Cochrane
Biographic Data
| ID | 125117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura L Cochrane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cochrane |
| SIGNATURE | COCHRANE L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6319-8032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Baay Faal patchwork as religious practice in Senegal
Laura E. Cochrane. Review of "The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age" by Beatrice E. Kitzinger
Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts
Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How …
Religious networks and small businesses in Senegal
Senegalese religious groups historically have relied on their own networks to manage external challenges, such as colonialism, drought, and economic difficulties. Present-day religious networks often use small businesses to economically support themselves. Drawing on ethnographic research in central Senegal, this article argues that strong religious networks, and practicing Islamic teachings of social welfare, are both the means of creating and t…
Addressing drought through rural religious communities in Senegal
Severe ecological changes across the Sahel have created a difficult environment for agriculture and rural village economies. Rural communities, while small in scale, are creating new ways to transform their degraded environment. Their small size allows them to develop location-specific strategies to manage and improve water, soil and agriculture. This article focuses on two Sufi communities (daaras) in Senegal that integrate environmental work an…
Bamba Merci: The intersections of political and spiritual graffiti in Senegal
In the summer of 2013, ‘Bamba Merci’ became an omnipresent slogan on public walls throughout Senegal; it was a social movement started by a prominent leader of the Murid Sufi order. With both political and religious meanings, the graffiti pointed to the intertwined relationships between political and religious lives. Senegal’s secular postcolonial state policies allow and encourage open religious dialogue. A state-maintained open public sphere cr…
Rebuilding Agriculture and the Environment in Senegal
It's always with faith that we plant every year here,” said Jean-Pierre Ndour, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Mbour, a coastal city in Senegal. Referring to starting local development pr
Addressing global economic inequalities in local ways in Senegal's artisanal workshops
Central Senegal was once a thriving agricultural area, but over the past century, it has struggled with repeated droughts, rising temperatures, and land mismanagement. In addition, global inequalities, including colonialism, unequal energy use, and international trade inequities, have escalated both climate change and economic insecurities worldwide. These inequalities in turn have affected local environments and economies. Throughout these long-…
Land Degradation, Faith-Based Organizations, and Sustainability in Senegal
Over the past one hundred years, Senegal has experienced repeated droughts and shifting economic and agricultural policies that have contributed to long-term land degradation in a once-productive agricultural region. Faith-based organizations have become prominent in community-level projects that are working to rebuild Senegal's rural agriculture and work toward environmental sustainability. Through ethnographic interviews with religious leaders …
The growth of artistic nationalism in Senegal
In the 1960s, Senegal's first national leaders narrowly defined how artists should practise nationalism through their work, particularly in the weaving craft, and enforced this definition through selective state patronage. This ideological and stylistic control echoed state control over economic markets. As subsequent administrations have restructured the economy, leading to a powerful informal business sector, so have independent contemporary we…
Senegalese weavers' ethnic identities, in discourse and in craft
Weavers in northwestern Senegal consider their weaving work to be a practice of their specific identities. Weavers at the two group workshops in Poponguine, a small town in this region, create notions of their ethnic identities through discourse about their craft work, added to their very practices of creating art. They both put their identities into practice and contribute to regional understandings of ethnicities through processes of arts produ…
Religious expression in senegalese weavers' work
Using ethnographic interviews with weavers in Thiès, Senegal, this article argues that artists make processes of weaving practices of their faith. Weavers discursively associate their work with their personal faith and with socially circulated tenets of Sufism and indigenous systems of belief. I focus on a tacitly expressed analogy that weavers make between their work and faith: the divinely inspired knowledge needed for personal spiritual transf…
From the Archives: Women's History in Baker Library's Business Manuscripts Collection
“[O]ur ladies know nothing of the sober certainties which relate to money and they cannot be taught,” wrote Frederic Tudor in 1820, in a sweeping indictment of women's financial abilities that was common for the period. Despite such stereotypes, many women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries participated in commerce, both as merchants and as manufacturers. Because they mainly oversaw small and shortlived concerns, however, their enterprise…
The growth of artistic nationalism in Senegal
In the 1960s, Senegal's first national leaders narrowly defined how artists should practise nationalism through their work, particularly in the weaving craft, and enforced this definition through selective state patronage. This ideological and stylistic control echoed state control over economic markets. As subsequent administrations have restructured the economy, leading to a powerful informal business sector, so have independent contemporary we…
Bamba Merci: The intersections of political and spiritual graffiti in Senegal
In the summer of 2013, ‘Bamba Merci’ became an omnipresent slogan on public walls throughout Senegal; it was a social movement started by a prominent leader of the Murid Sufi order. With both political and religious meanings, the graffiti pointed to the intertwined relationships between political and religious lives. Senegal’s secular postcolonial state policies allow and encourage open religious dialogue. A state-maintained open public sphere cr…
Addressing drought through rural religious communities in Senegal
Severe ecological changes across the Sahel have created a difficult environment for agriculture and rural village economies. Rural communities, while small in scale, are creating new ways to transform their degraded environment. Their small size allows them to develop location-specific strategies to manage and improve water, soil and agriculture. This article focuses on two Sufi communities (daaras) in Senegal that integrate environmental work an…
Land Degradation, Faith-Based Organizations, and Sustainability in Senegal
Over the past one hundred years, Senegal has experienced repeated droughts and shifting economic and agricultural policies that have contributed to long-term land degradation in a once-productive agricultural region. Faith-based organizations have become prominent in community-level projects that are working to rebuild Senegal's rural agriculture and work toward environmental sustainability. Through ethnographic interviews with religious leaders …
Senegalese weavers' ethnic identities, in discourse and in craft
Weavers in northwestern Senegal consider their weaving work to be a practice of their specific identities. Weavers at the two group workshops in Poponguine, a small town in this region, create notions of their ethnic identities through discourse about their craft work, added to their very practices of creating art. They both put their identities into practice and contribute to regional understandings of ethnicities through processes of arts produ…
Religious networks and small businesses in Senegal
Senegalese religious groups historically have relied on their own networks to manage external challenges, such as colonialism, drought, and economic difficulties. Present-day religious networks often use small businesses to economically support themselves. Drawing on ethnographic research in central Senegal, this article argues that strong religious networks, and practicing Islamic teachings of social welfare, are both the means of creating and t…
Rebuilding Agriculture and the Environment in Senegal
It's always with faith that we plant every year here,” said Jean-Pierre Ndour, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Mbour, a coastal city in Senegal. Referring to starting local development pr
From the Archives: Women's History in Baker Library's Business Manuscripts Collection
“[O]ur ladies know nothing of the sober certainties which relate to money and they cannot be taught,” wrote Frederic Tudor in 1820, in a sweeping indictment of women's financial abilities that was common for the period. Despite such stereotypes, many women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries participated in commerce, both as merchants and as manufacturers. Because they mainly oversaw small and shortlived concerns, however, their enterprise…
Senegalese weavers' ethnic identities, in discourse and in craft
Weavers in northwestern Senegal consider their weaving work to be a practice of their specific identities. Weavers at the two group workshops in Poponguine, a small town in this region, create notions of their ethnic identities through discourse about their craft work, added to their very practices of creating art. They both put their identities into practice and contribute to regional understandings of ethnicities through processes of arts produ…
Religious expression in senegalese weavers' work
Using ethnographic interviews with weavers in Thiès, Senegal, this article argues that artists make processes of weaving practices of their faith. Weavers discursively associate their work with their personal faith and with socially circulated tenets of Sufism and indigenous systems of belief. I focus on a tacitly expressed analogy that weavers make between their work and faith: the divinely inspired knowledge needed for personal spiritual transf…
The growth of artistic nationalism in Senegal
In the 1960s, Senegal's first national leaders narrowly defined how artists should practise nationalism through their work, particularly in the weaving craft, and enforced this definition through selective state patronage. This ideological and stylistic control echoed state control over economic markets. As subsequent administrations have restructured the economy, leading to a powerful informal business sector, so have independent contemporary we…
Land Degradation, Faith-Based Organizations, and Sustainability in Senegal
Over the past one hundred years, Senegal has experienced repeated droughts and shifting economic and agricultural policies that have contributed to long-term land degradation in a once-productive agricultural region. Faith-based organizations have become prominent in community-level projects that are working to rebuild Senegal's rural agriculture and work toward environmental sustainability. Through ethnographic interviews with religious leaders …
Addressing global economic inequalities in local ways in Senegal's artisanal workshops
Central Senegal was once a thriving agricultural area, but over the past century, it has struggled with repeated droughts, rising temperatures, and land mismanagement. In addition, global inequalities, including colonialism, unequal energy use, and international trade inequities, have escalated both climate change and economic insecurities worldwide. These inequalities in turn have affected local environments and economies. Throughout these long-…
Bamba Merci: The intersections of political and spiritual graffiti in Senegal
In the summer of 2013, ‘Bamba Merci’ became an omnipresent slogan on public walls throughout Senegal; it was a social movement started by a prominent leader of the Murid Sufi order. With both political and religious meanings, the graffiti pointed to the intertwined relationships between political and religious lives. Senegal’s secular postcolonial state policies allow and encourage open religious dialogue. A state-maintained open public sphere cr…
Rebuilding Agriculture and the Environment in Senegal
It's always with faith that we plant every year here,” said Jean-Pierre Ndour, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Mbour, a coastal city in Senegal. Referring to starting local development pr
Addressing drought through rural religious communities in Senegal
Severe ecological changes across the Sahel have created a difficult environment for agriculture and rural village economies. Rural communities, while small in scale, are creating new ways to transform their degraded environment. Their small size allows them to develop location-specific strategies to manage and improve water, soil and agriculture. This article focuses on two Sufi communities (daaras) in Senegal that integrate environmental work an…
Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts
Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How …
Religious networks and small businesses in Senegal
Senegalese religious groups historically have relied on their own networks to manage external challenges, such as colonialism, drought, and economic difficulties. Present-day religious networks often use small businesses to economically support themselves. Drawing on ethnographic research in central Senegal, this article argues that strong religious networks, and practicing Islamic teachings of social welfare, are both the means of creating and t…
Laura E. Cochrane. Review of "The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age" by Beatrice E. Kitzinger
Baay Faal patchwork as religious practice in Senegal
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)