Schielke (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany) explores contestations over mulids (festivals celebrating Islamic religious figures) in contemporary Egypt. Examining mulids both as festive practice and as
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respec
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respec
Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and m
Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken
Social scientists and scholars of religion explore the complex duality of religion as an everyday practice and a normative doctrine. Among the topics are divination and Islam: existential perspectives
