Young Men and Islam in the 1990s

Rethinking an Intergenerational Perspective

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3932995
AutoresMathias Savadogo (1Department of History, Cocody campus, Université nationale de la Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire;, Email: [email protected]), Marie-Nathalie Leblanc (2Department of Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada;, Email: [email protected]), Muriel Gomez-Perez (0000-0003-2623-5142, 3Department of History, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada;, Email: [email protected])
Año2009
Volumen39
Número2
Páginas186-218
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157006609x436021
OpenAlexW2057785193
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

Interest in the question of youth and Islam in West Africa stems from the overwhelming demographic weight of youth and their relatively recent incursion into the public domain, as well a wave of Islamic revivalism that has swept across Africa from the late 1970s on. In this paper, we propose to examine the sociopolitical role of young men in Islamic revivalist movements that occurred in urban centers in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Senegal in the 1980-1990s. Such movements were particularly popular among secularly educated young men who attended French-speaking schools. While the role of young men in revivalist movements suggests new configurations of authority and charisma, their religious agency remains closely embedded within relationships that extend across generations. Here, we examine instances of conflicts between generations and pay attention to sites of negotiation, such as mosques and voluntary associations

Agency (philosophy) · Charisma · History of religions · Islam · Negotiation · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Social science · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature