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New Forms of Religious Practices in Urban Burkina Faso, with Emphasis on Islam

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Code Science Field Subfield
6.03.00  Humanities  Anthropology   

Code Science Field
S220  Social sciences  Cultural anthropology, ethnology 
Keywords
Religion, Islam, Burkina Faso, Urban Anthropology, Social and Political Changes, Africa
Evaluation (rules)
source: COBISS
Researchers (2)
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  25635  PhD Liza Debevec  Anthropology  Researcher  2005 - 2007  120 
2.  15116  PhD Borut Telban  Anthropology  Head  2005 - 2007  425 
Organisations (1)
no. Code Research organisation City Registration number No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  0618  Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts  Ljubljana  5105498000  62,948 
Abstract
The project will examine the new forms of religious practices in urban Burkina Faso in the context of momentous social and political changes in Africa and in the world. Since Islam is the dominant religion in the area special attention will be paid to the multiplicity of new Islamic practices and increasing occurrence of atheism. As atheism is often perceived as a process of breaking of social ties between the individual and the community, local concepts of personhood, sociality and religious identity will be explored.
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