Mosques as religious infrastructure

Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7212992
AutoresYanti M Hoelzchen (0000-0003-0958-2388, Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt (Main), Frankfurt, Germany, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume41
Fascículo2
Páginas368-384
Data de publicação2021-11-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCentral Asian Survey (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-4937 • E-ISSN: 1465-3354
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02634937.2021.1979468
OpenAlexW3217703282
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas26

This study examines the role of technologies and infrastructures within the realm of religion, which so far has received little attention within infrastructural approaches in anthropology. Introducing the notion of ʻreligious infrastructure', the analysis sheds light on the socio-material processes contributing to the spread of a specific understanding of religious knowledge ilim in present-day Kyrgyzstan, and how these shape Muslim selfhood and Muslim sociality. In addition, the article illustrates how this infrastructure transforms and reconfigures under specific historical as well as technological circumstances. This temporal embeddedness is furthermore demonstrated by the moral imaginaries elicited via religious infrastructure, which may be taken as representative of how interlocutors during the research connect their everyday lives to past and future visions of leading meaningful lives

Aesthetics · Embeddedness · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Political science · Realm · Social science · Sociality · Sociology · Transcendental number · Vision · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure