Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion to Sufi Cults

Pnina Werbner

Routledge (Manohar)

The Manchester Muslim diaspora features an intense local micro-politics of honor and shame, debated in the globalized language of world affairs and dramatically enacted through public performance. Pnina Werbner reveals that Manchester Pakistanis occupy a locally created public space that appropriates and combines traveling ideas and images from a variety of sources into meaningful moral allegories. Living in the diaspora requires them constantly to negotiate the boundaries of minority citizenship. For Brisish Muslims this process--usually peaceful--has lurched from one confrontation to another: from the Rushdie affair to the Gulf War to the post-September 11 crisis. Each crisis has signaled a more mature grasp by diasporic Muslims of what it means to be a Brisish citizen in a global world.

Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The Public Performance of Pakistani Transnational Identity Politics (World Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

SAR Press

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Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion to Sufi Cults

Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The Public Performance of Pakistani Transnational Identity Politics (World Anthropology)