The sacred body and the fascination of orthopraxy the religious corpus of Hungarian muslim woman /

Nowhere is the crisis of the post-modern subject more evident than in its representations of the body. Post-modernity wavers, anxiously, between em-bodiment and dis-embodiment. It is argued, here, that the orthoprax appeal of Islam to European converts stems from its emphasis on the purification of...

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Main Authors: Belhaj Abdessamad
Speidl Bianka
Format: Article
Published: 2015
Series:Religion, culture, society 2
Kulcsszavak:Iszlám vallás - női test fogalma - vallási etika
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Online Access:http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/66995
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Summary:Nowhere is the crisis of the post-modern subject more evident than in its representations of the body. Post-modernity wavers, anxiously, between em-bodiment and dis-embodiment. It is argued, here, that the orthoprax appeal of Islam to European converts stems from its emphasis on the purification of the individual and collective bodies. Islamic law provides an ethical and legal spring-board, albeit pre-modern, the aim of which is to frame the scattered body and to set its boundaries in time and space. Our data come from the corpus of religious texts (94 documents) produced and distributed by members of the group Iszlám és a nők (“Islam and women”), established by Hungarian Muslim women in Budapest, and uploaded to the documents of the Facebook site of the community. Most of the documents are transcripts or handouts for lectures on various subjects.
Physical Description:134-153
ISSN:1416-7972