Public piety and Islamic preaching in Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12985459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Max Stille (0000-0001-8191-5541, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 295-309 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian History and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1947-2498 • E-ISSN: 1947-2501 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19472498.2021.1878790 |
| OpenAlex | W3126730286 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article proposes ways how to access emotions in Islamic preaching. Conceptually, it brings together the often-juxtaposed spheres of body and mind; nature and culture; aesthetics and religion. Based on extensive research on Islamic sermons in Bangladesh between 2012 and 2015, it stresses the form of public speech as the means to access the emotional potentials of oratory. It argues that a focus on emotions allows us to gain a deeper understanding of Islam as an aesthetic and political formation while at the same time emphasizing processes over static ideas of identity and complicating ideas of political participation. Sermons offer listeners emotionalized roles that are not reducible to state or party narratives and reorient the relationship to nationalism as much as other parts of subjectivities, such as masculinity, sense of justice, or imaginations of the future. The article shows how these debates can be linked to emotions engrained in the vocal qualities of Islamic preaching. To make this argument, it intervenes in debates about the concepts of emotions and affects. It furthermore stresses the role of humour in making emotional potentials transcend a private or literary sphere rather than, as has been done in previous literature, a merely relaxing aspect of oratory. From this perspective, Islamic preaching gatherings evolve as communicative practices that crucially shape configurations of community, extends of the political, and gendered subjectivities
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Identity (music · Islam · Linguistics · Masculinity · Narrative · Nationalism · Piety · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Philosophy
Sounding Islam
The Act of Reading
The Prophet's PulpitIslamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Passions of the Tongue
Hearing Allah’s Call
Emotions in History - Lost and Found
The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World
The Twelver Shi'a as a Muslim Minority in India
Islamic Sermons and Public Piety in Bangladesh
Cut-pieces
Passionate refrains
Feeling Modern
The Performer and the Listener
Obedient Passion—Passionate Obedience
Emotions in performance
Language and the Politics of Emotion
Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic
Religious Emotions and Emotions in Religion
Literature in the Reader
Conceptualizing Compassion in Communication for Communication
The Criticism of the Islamic Preacher
Reading the Qur'an in Bangladesh
The Turn to Affect
The Acoustics of Muslim Striving
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |