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dc.contributor.authorØstebø, Terje
dc.date.accessioned2008-02-18T12:25:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-29T09:12:47Z
dc.date.available2008-02-18T12:25:47Z
dc.date.available2017-03-29T09:12:47Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.isbn978-82-8062-212-9
dc.identifier.issn0804-3639
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2435931
dc.description.abstractEthiopia’s new political climate (since 1991) has enhanced the Muslims’ opportunities for religious expressions, clearly seen through the surfacing of several Islamic reform movements. These movements; the Salafi movement, the Tabligh movement and an Intellectualist revivalist movement have proven crucial for a certain process of objectification of religious affiliation, and have moreover served as channels for the search for belonging and coherent meaning among the Muslims. Discussing the movements’ socio-cultural composition and their ideological content, this paper pays attention to how features of locality interact with trans-local ideological currents, reciprocally affecting each other. Of particular interest in the Ethiopian case is the explicit avoidance of any political agenda, a distinct intermarriage with a discourse on ethnicity, where the latter has contributed to complex processes of constructing and demarcating religious- and ethnic-based boundaries. The paper thus seeks to demonstrate the complex interrelationship between global currents and local factors; all contributing to the heterogenisation of contemporary Islam.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherChr. Michelsen Institute
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCMI Working paper
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWP 2007: 8
dc.subjectEthiopia
dc.subjectIslam
dc.subjectSalafism
dc.subjectIslamism
dc.subjectIdentity
dc.subjectEthnicity
dc.titleThe Question of Becoming: Islamic Reform-Movements in Contemporary Ethiopia
dc.typeWorking paper


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