BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Detroit
TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20070311T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20071104T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20170203T142143
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170217T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170217T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Debating Daʿwa: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival
DESCRIPTION:What makes media “Islamic”? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Islamic television producers in Cairo\, this paper looks at the passionate contention within Egypt’s piety movement over the development of new forms of religious media. I suggest that at stake in these mass-mediated debates over daʿwa (Islamic outreach) are conflicting theologies of both religious publicity and everyday life that configure the boundaries of the “religious” and the “secular” differently. This God-talk matters a great deal to Islamic Revivalists who spend more time debunking each other than they do secularists. Attending to these internal critiques foregrounds the contradictory moral conceptions of human flourishing and divine obligation that animate Egypt’s Islamic Revival. Indeed\, focusing on the piety movement’s internal fractures as God-talk allows for an ethnographic engagement with how Muslim adepts critique religious difference—and the difference that religious critique makes—beyond the imperatives of secular power even while troubling both the “secular” and the “religious” as analytical categories.\n\nPlease RSVP to Saquib Usman at susman@umich.edu.
UID:38544-7217368@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/38544
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Information and Technology,International,Media,Middle East Studies,Muslim
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636
CONTACT:
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR