Corporeal Poetics of Sacred Space
An Ethnography of Jum’ah in a Chapel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12496797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani (0000-0002-2556-625X, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 298-310 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Space and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-3312 • E-ISSN: 1552-8308 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1206331215579750 |
| OpenAlex | W2136464234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article presents an ethnography of makeshift worship space for the minority Muslim community of a university campus and neighborhood in a Midwestern city in the United States. It uncovers how Muslim congregational worship is conducted in this provisional site, which bears competing symbols of Christian worship, to explore how the body plays an active role in perceiving space through rearrangement, reorientation, and auditory inscription. It explores how space is zoned to correspond with boundaries of (im)purity toward the symbolic maintenance of the sacred. In addition, it discusses the play of distance in space along the center to the periphery as spatial markers that correspond with positions of authority and membership. Finally, this article discloses how a lack of ownership of space conditions the disposition of a minority religious community within the larger secular and national landscape
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Political science · Sociology · The Symbolic · Worship · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces
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Phenomenology of Perception
Space and place
To take place
In Place/Out of Place
Public Religion and Urban Transformation
The Sacred and The Secular
Sacralising’ Sacred Space in Public Institutions
This Is Religious Environment”
The “Dead and Their Double Duties”
Spatialisation of Power/Knowledge/Discourse
Spatial Succession of Sacred Space in Chicago
The Origin and Nature of the Muslim Friday Worship
Between Geography and Philosophy
Beyond Mysterium Tremendum
Make-Believe
Merging 'different' sacred spaces
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual
Rethinking Anthropological Studies of the Body
A Space for Place in Sociology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |