Conversos al islam y retornados al judaísmo en Buenos Aires y San Pablo: un ensayo comparativo

Siebzehner, Batia; Senkman, Leonardo

doi:10.4000/hamsa.455

“…The volume Islam and the Americas, edited by Khan (2015) also contains valuable case-studies but mostly concentrates on Central and North America and has a notable specialization on Caribbean communities. A recent journal issue edited by Frank Usarski (2019) about Judaism and Islam in Latin America contains recent research and a number of interesting cases, although the only contribution dealing with Argentina is a comparative perspective of conversion to orthodox Judaism and Islam, see Siebzehner and Senkman (2019a), for a version in Spanish see Siebzehner and Senkman (2019b). Studies about Sufism in Argentina are still rare.…”

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Gender Reconfigurations and Family Ideology in Abdul Rauf Felpete’s Latin American Haqqaniyya

Diaz

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2022

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This article discusses the ideas about gender contained in the Enseñanzas Sufíes Para Los Tiempos Actuales, a text by Abdul Rauf Felpete, the leader of the Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya in Latin America, probably the largest Sufi group in the continent. I analyse these ideas against the backdrop context in which they were produced: on the one hand, a conservative Sufi Islamic frame inspired by Nazim al-Haqqani’s ideas, and on the other, an Argentinian society that was incurring profound gender-related societal changes at the time when the shaykh delivered the sermons contained in the book. This historical moment was characterised by a growing feminist and LGTBQ+ activism and the arrival of a progressive government in Argentina, which over time, positioned this Latin American country in the vanguard of gender and sexual equality rights in the Spanish speaking world. In this context, Rauf Felpete proposes a gender model inspired in a Haqqani form of Islamic conservatism as a remedy to address what he perceives as the threat of civilizational decadence brought about by these changes. I discuss Rauf Felpete’s family ideology, a set of moral norms based on gender determinism and pronatalism, articulated through two key concepts, first, domesticity, understood as a way to regulate female behaviour and, second, motherhood, viewed as a Godly ordained natural instinct. In order to put into practice these gender norms, the devout Haqqani is called to move to the countryside; rural communes are presented as the only possible way of living a pious and authentically Islamic life, a mode of living that implies profound reconfigurations of gender (and of lifestyle, more generally) for his Latin American followers.

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“…The volume Islam and the Americas, edited by Khan (2015) also contains valuable case-studies but mostly concentrates on Central and North America and has a notable specialization on Caribbean communities. A recent journal issue edited by Frank Usarski (2019) about Judaism and Islam in Latin America contains recent research and a number of interesting cases, although the only contribution dealing with Argentina is a comparative perspective of conversion to orthodox Judaism and Islam, see Siebzehner and Senkman (2019a), for a version in Spanish see Siebzehner and Senkman (2019b). Studies about Sufism in Argentina are still rare.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience

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Religión y género en América Latina: perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas para la investigación

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2021

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El clivaje entre los estudios de género/feministas y los trabajos en ciencias sociales de la religión ha generado una frontera entre dos perspectivas de investigación que sin embargo son necesariamente complementarias. Las reticencias que se construían entre ambos campos disciplinares impedían, de un lado, incorporar la complejidad y los matices de las prácticas, las creencias y el rol de instituciones religiosas en los estudios de género/feministas, mientras que, del otro lado, se esquivaba la incorporación de una perspectiva de género en los estudios de ciencias sociales de la religión por temor a caer en sesgos. Este dossier se inserta en la serie de trabajos que —en América Latina— se inicia a mediados de los 80 pero proponiendo un análisis interdisciplinario renovado entre ambos campos y metodologías de trabajo. Con este objetivo, aquí se reúnen algunos trabajos de jóvenes investigadores que discuten los desafíos y límites teóricos-metodológicos que enfrentan las nuevas preguntas de investigación para abordar las interfaces entre religión y género en Chile, México y Uruguay, considerando los cambios en el campo social y religioso en las últimas décadas.

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Conversos al islam y retornados al judaísmo en Buenos Aires y San Pablo: un ensayo comparativo

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Gender Reconfigurations and Family Ideology in Abdul Rauf Felpete’s Latin American Haqqaniyya

Gender Reconfigurations and Family Ideology in Abdul Rauf Felpete’s Latin American Haqqaniyya

Female Mystics and the Divine Feminine in the Global Sufi Experience

Religión y género en América Latina: perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas para la investigación

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