A time to pray, a time to play

Everyday life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between the temporalities of religion, tradition and consumerism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4356232
AutoresTheeb Aldossry (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, autor correspondente), Matthias Zick Varul
Ano2016
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas471-492
Data de publicação2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x16631767
OpenAlexW2419033484
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas29

Based on empirical research on the emergence of consumerism in Saudi Arabia, this article examines the shifts in the understanding of time that emerge in the competing paradigms of traditional and Islamic time, globalised world time and the individualisation of time in consumer pursuits. While Islamic time still provides the dominant frame for social life in Saudi Arabia, there have been adaptions to global time. While these are relatively unproblematic and technical, both traditional Arab and postmodern consumer times are less compatible, and especially the latter is posing a challenge to both Islamic and traditional timings

Aesthetics · Art · Consumerism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Islam · Political science · Postmodernism · Secularization · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Theology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Halal products and consumer behavior · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy