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- Influence
Pilgrimage, Commodities, and Religious Objectification: The Making of Transnational Shiism between Iran and Syria
- P. Pinto
- Sociology
- 4 June 2007
��� ny visitor to the pilgrimage sites of Lourdes in France, Mashhad in Iran, or Varanasi in India is surely impressed by the crowd of pilgrims coming from various places in order to express their… Expand
Ethnographies of Islam : ritual performances and everyday practices
- Badouin Dupret, T. Pierret, P. Pinto, Kathryn Spellman-Poots
- Sociology
- 1 July 2012
This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate. Political… Expand
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Mystical bodies/unruly bodies: Experience, empowerment and subjectification in Syrian Sufism
- P. Pinto
- Philosophy
- 1 June 2016
Religious experience can be a tool for the constitution of social subjects, the construction of symbolic meanings and values, as well as for shaping the subjectivity and corporality of the faithful.… Expand
Sufism, moral performance and the Public Sphere in Syria
- P. Pinto
- Sociology
- 31 December 2006
This article aims to analyze Sufism as a religious framework for social action in contemporary Syria. Sufism in Syria has been on the rise during the last two decades, in response to a growing demand… Expand
Knowledge and Miracles: Modes of Charisma in Syrian Sufism
- P. Pinto
- Philosophy
- 2013
Charisma is an important feature of religious authority in Syrian Islam, since Sunni religiosity is mostly lived as a collective phenomenon in small communities organized around a charismatic… Expand
Sufism among the Kurds in Syria
- P. Pinto
- Sociology
- 24 March 2011
Sufism has a pervasive presence in the religious and cultural life of the Kurds in Syria. The vast majority of them are Sunni Muslims and their Islamic practices and beliefs are marked by a strong… Expand
Pilgrimage and Transnational Religious Imagination in the Muslim Communities of Brazil
- P. Pinto
- History
- 10 June 2019
‘Oh Syria, God Protects You’: Islam as Cultural Idiom under Bashar al-Asad
- P. Pinto
- Political Science
- 1 June 2011
salafi-influenced codification of Islam in order to present an image of Islam in Syria that could be palatable to visitors from other Muslim countries in the Organization. In Damascus, both… Expand
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