Benjamin Soares
Biographic Data
| ID | 86885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Soares |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Soares |
| SIGNATURE | SOARES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | African Studies Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2340-5946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Les Dogons musulmans, les saints « païens » et autres « oxymores: Retour critique sur l'étude du fait religieux en Afrique de l'Ouest
retour critique sur l'tude du fait religieux en Afrique de l'Ouest M eS confrences de 2022 proposent un retour critique sur l'tude du fait religieux et de l'islam en Afrique de l'Ouest. Elles appellent une nouvelle approche de l'anthropologie de l'islam et de l'anthropologie du fait religieux plus gnralement. Dans mes confrences, la religion, et notamment l'islam, servent d'angle d'approche pour comprendre certaines des transformations sociales m…
O que está aquecendo nossa terra? o calor entre o antropoceno e a colonização
O debate em torno do conceito de Antropoceno tem sido amplo e dinâmico, possibilitando ultrapassar os limites das diferentes áreas científicas em uma disputa de paradigmas conceituais, políticos e ontológicos, na busca de alternativas e a outros caminhos possíveis que considerem as diferentes expressões de vida no planeta. Nesse sentido, o objetivo da discussão é apresentar e refletir sobre as problemáticas e limitações desse conceito e indicar, …
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 …
A violência contra as mulheres e o movimento feminista dos anos 1970 nos EUA a partir de Nancy Fraser e Angela Davis
Analisando a luta do feminismo estadunidense dá década de 1970, Nancy Fraser (1985; 1988; 1989) relata o processo pelo qual as ativistas determinaram a violência doméstica contra as mulheres como uma questão genuinamente política. Por meio de uma luta pela interpretação das necessidades das mulheres, elas romperam com o discurso individual que naturalizava essa violência.Por outro lado, Angela Davis (1981; 1984) também teceu uma densa análise sob…
Religiosity and its others: Lived Islam in West Africa and South India
Drawing on research about settings in South India and West Africa characterised by significant religious diversity, we reflect on the ways in which everyday religiosity among contemporary Muslims is constituted through difference and contestation. Our cases are from two ostensibly secular states – India and Nigeria – both former British colonies where secularism has been interrogated over the past few decades. In our focus on what we call ‘lived’…
Paridade de participação e emancipação em Nancy Fraser: Reconhecimento E Justiça a Partir Do Feminismo
This research aims to analyze, from the perspective of Nancy Fraser's Critical Theory, the dimensions of parity of participation as a category of normative character that allows us to question if the theory offers the possibility of accounting for emancipation and diagnosig the forms of domination suffered by new social movements in contemporary democracies.In this regard, Fraser strongly criticizes the Theory of Recognition, which tends to be th…
Reflections on Muslim-christian Encounters in West Africa
Among historians, social scientists and scholars of religion there has been increased recognition of the importance of studying Islam and Christianity in Africa not separately but rather together as lived religions in dynamic interaction over time. In this article, I trace how scholars have arrived at such a point and consider some of the challenges of conducting research on religious encounters, and particularly those associated with studying Is…
The Historiography of Islam in West Africa: An Anthropologist's View
In this article, I focus on the historiography of Islam in West Africa while also reflecting upon and assessing existing scholarship in the broader field of the study of Islam in Africa. My position as an anthropologist who conducts historical research informs my perspective in evaluating the current state of the field and my suggestions for directions in which I think future research might move in order to advance our understanding of Islam and …
On the recent mess in Mali (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
In this guest editorial, Benjamin Soaris looks at the rapid deterioration of the situation in Mali. He encourages anthropologists to see the bigger picture
Islam, Politics, Anthropology
This chapter contains sections titled: Social structure, culture, and the conundrums of modernity Civil society and the public sphere Gender politics Politics unbound Islamism, post-Islamism, and questions of piety Islam and politics today Acknowledgments Notes References
Islam, Politics, Anthropology
Being as Good Muslims as Frenchmen: On Islam and Colonial Modernity in West Africa
In contrast to many previous studies that follow the perspective of colonial administrators and portray Muslim religious leaders or marabouts as essentially political actors who seek political and economic advantage, this paper proposes a new perspective on marabouts under French colonial rule.Focusing on three prominent representatives of the Tijaniyya Sufi order, Seydou Nourou Tall (d.1980) and Ibrahima Niasse (d.1975) from Senegal, and Sidi Be…
Islam, politics, anthropology
In this paper, we consider anthropology's long and, at times, problematic engagement with the study of Islam and Muslim societies. Specifically, we reflect critically on ongoing anthropological debates about the relationship between Islam and politics and suggest new terms of analysis. Although we pay attention to the state and formal politics, involving various social actors and organizations, we are also interested in everyday politics and micr…
Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
This timely collection offers new perspectives on Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa. Working against political and scholarly traditions that keep Muslims and Christians apart, the essays in this multidisciplinary volume locate African Muslims and Christians within a common analytical frame. In a series of historical and ethnographic case studies from across the African continent, the authors consider the multiple ways Muslims and Christians h…
Islam and the prayer economy: History and authority in a Malian town
Exploring the development of different Islamic discourses practices and institutions, this text traces the transformation of ideas in Islam in Mali, from the pre-colonial period through to the modern day.
Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town
Benjamin F. Scares. Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in Malian Town. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv + 306 pp. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. Islam and the frayer Economy is an ethnographic and historical study of Muslim society among the people of Nioro, town in western near the border with Mauritania, which the French colonial administrator Paul Marty once described as veri…
Islam, politics, anthropology
In this paper, we consider anthropology's long and, at times, problematic engagement with the study of Islam and Muslim societies. Specifically, we reflect critically on ongoing anthropological debates about the relationship between Islam and politics and suggest new terms of analysis. Although we pay attention to the state and formal politics, involving various social actors and organizations, we are also interested in everyday politics and micr…
Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town
Benjamin F. Scares. Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in Malian Town. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv + 306 pp. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. Islam and the frayer Economy is an ethnographic and historical study of Muslim society among the people of Nioro, town in western near the border with Mauritania, which the French colonial administrator Paul Marty once described as veri…
Being as Good Muslims as Frenchmen: On Islam and Colonial Modernity in West Africa
In contrast to many previous studies that follow the perspective of colonial administrators and portray Muslim religious leaders or marabouts as essentially political actors who seek political and economic advantage, this paper proposes a new perspective on marabouts under French colonial rule.Focusing on three prominent representatives of the Tijaniyya Sufi order, Seydou Nourou Tall (d.1980) and Ibrahima Niasse (d.1975) from Senegal, and Sidi Be…
Reflections on Muslim-christian Encounters in West Africa
Among historians, social scientists and scholars of religion there has been increased recognition of the importance of studying Islam and Christianity in Africa not separately but rather together as lived religions in dynamic interaction over time. In this article, I trace how scholars have arrived at such a point and consider some of the challenges of conducting research on religious encounters, and particularly those associated with studying Is…
The Historiography of Islam in West Africa: An Anthropologist's View
In this article, I focus on the historiography of Islam in West Africa while also reflecting upon and assessing existing scholarship in the broader field of the study of Islam in Africa. My position as an anthropologist who conducts historical research informs my perspective in evaluating the current state of the field and my suggestions for directions in which I think future research might move in order to advance our understanding of Islam and …
On the recent mess in Mali (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
In this guest editorial, Benjamin Soaris looks at the rapid deterioration of the situation in Mali. He encourages anthropologists to see the bigger picture
Islam and the prayer economy: History and authority in a Malian town
Exploring the development of different Islamic discourses practices and institutions, this text traces the transformation of ideas in Islam in Mali, from the pre-colonial period through to the modern day.
Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town
Benjamin F. Scares. Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in Malian Town. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv + 306 pp. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. Islam and the frayer Economy is an ethnographic and historical study of Muslim society among the people of Nioro, town in western near the border with Mauritania, which the French colonial administrator Paul Marty once described as veri…
Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
This timely collection offers new perspectives on Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa. Working against political and scholarly traditions that keep Muslims and Christians apart, the essays in this multidisciplinary volume locate African Muslims and Christians within a common analytical frame. In a series of historical and ethnographic case studies from across the African continent, the authors consider the multiple ways Muslims and Christians h…
Being as Good Muslims as Frenchmen: On Islam and Colonial Modernity in West Africa
In contrast to many previous studies that follow the perspective of colonial administrators and portray Muslim religious leaders or marabouts as essentially political actors who seek political and economic advantage, this paper proposes a new perspective on marabouts under French colonial rule.Focusing on three prominent representatives of the Tijaniyya Sufi order, Seydou Nourou Tall (d.1980) and Ibrahima Niasse (d.1975) from Senegal, and Sidi Be…
Islam, politics, anthropology
In this paper, we consider anthropology's long and, at times, problematic engagement with the study of Islam and Muslim societies. Specifically, we reflect critically on ongoing anthropological debates about the relationship between Islam and politics and suggest new terms of analysis. Although we pay attention to the state and formal politics, involving various social actors and organizations, we are also interested in everyday politics and micr…
Islam, Politics, Anthropology
This chapter contains sections titled: Social structure, culture, and the conundrums of modernity Civil society and the public sphere Gender politics Politics unbound Islamism, post-Islamism, and questions of piety Islam and politics today Acknowledgments Notes References
Islam, Politics, Anthropology
On the recent mess in Mali (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
In this guest editorial, Benjamin Soaris looks at the rapid deterioration of the situation in Mali. He encourages anthropologists to see the bigger picture
The Historiography of Islam in West Africa: An Anthropologist's View
In this article, I focus on the historiography of Islam in West Africa while also reflecting upon and assessing existing scholarship in the broader field of the study of Islam in Africa. My position as an anthropologist who conducts historical research informs my perspective in evaluating the current state of the field and my suggestions for directions in which I think future research might move in order to advance our understanding of Islam and …
Reflections on Muslim-christian Encounters in West Africa
Among historians, social scientists and scholars of religion there has been increased recognition of the importance of studying Islam and Christianity in Africa not separately but rather together as lived religions in dynamic interaction over time. In this article, I trace how scholars have arrived at such a point and consider some of the challenges of conducting research on religious encounters, and particularly those associated with studying Is…
Religiosity and its others: Lived Islam in West Africa and South India
Drawing on research about settings in South India and West Africa characterised by significant religious diversity, we reflect on the ways in which everyday religiosity among contemporary Muslims is constituted through difference and contestation. Our cases are from two ostensibly secular states – India and Nigeria – both former British colonies where secularism has been interrogated over the past few decades. In our focus on what we call ‘lived’…
Paridade de participação e emancipação em Nancy Fraser: Reconhecimento E Justiça a Partir Do Feminismo
This research aims to analyze, from the perspective of Nancy Fraser's Critical Theory, the dimensions of parity of participation as a category of normative character that allows us to question if the theory offers the possibility of accounting for emancipation and diagnosig the forms of domination suffered by new social movements in contemporary democracies.In this regard, Fraser strongly criticizes the Theory of Recognition, which tends to be th…
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 …
A violência contra as mulheres e o movimento feminista dos anos 1970 nos EUA a partir de Nancy Fraser e Angela Davis
Analisando a luta do feminismo estadunidense dá década de 1970, Nancy Fraser (1985; 1988; 1989) relata o processo pelo qual as ativistas determinaram a violência doméstica contra as mulheres como uma questão genuinamente política. Por meio de uma luta pela interpretação das necessidades das mulheres, elas romperam com o discurso individual que naturalizava essa violência.Por outro lado, Angela Davis (1981; 1984) também teceu uma densa análise sob…
O que está aquecendo nossa terra? o calor entre o antropoceno e a colonização
O debate em torno do conceito de Antropoceno tem sido amplo e dinâmico, possibilitando ultrapassar os limites das diferentes áreas científicas em uma disputa de paradigmas conceituais, políticos e ontológicos, na busca de alternativas e a outros caminhos possíveis que considerem as diferentes expressões de vida no planeta. Nesse sentido, o objetivo da discussão é apresentar e refletir sobre as problemáticas e limitações desse conceito e indicar, …
Les Dogons musulmans, les saints « païens » et autres « oxymores: Retour critique sur l'étude du fait religieux en Afrique de l'Ouest
retour critique sur l'tude du fait religieux en Afrique de l'Ouest M eS confrences de 2022 proposent un retour critique sur l'tude du fait religieux et de l'islam en Afrique de l'Ouest. Elles appellent une nouvelle approche de l'anthropologie de l'islam et de l'anthropologie du fait religieux plus gnralement. Dans mes confrences, la religion, et notamment l'islam, servent d'angle d'approche pour comprendre certaines des transformations sociales m…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Islam (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works) · History (6 works)