Shiite “communities of practice” in Germany

• Verfasst von: Langer, Robert [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Weineck, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Shiite “communities of practice” in Germany
• Titelzusatz: researching multi-local, heterogeneous actors in transnational space
• Verf.angabe: Robert Langer (Orient-Institut Istanbul), Benjamin Weineck (Bayreuth University)
• Jahr: 2017
• Umfang: 25 S.
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 13.12.2017
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of Muslims in Europe
• Ort Quelle: Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2012
• Jahr Quelle: 2017
• Band/Heft Quelle: 6(2017), 2, Seite 216-240
• ISSN Quelle: 2211-7954
• DOI: doi:10.1163/22117954-12341351
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Shiites/Shiism
• K10plus-PPN: 1566342635

Abstract

Although few in number, the various Shiite Muslim communities in Germany are highly diversified in terms of their linguistic, national and ethnic backgrounds and ritual practice. In order to come to terms with these multi-local actors and their specific articulations of Shiism, the article aimes at an analytical framework that integrates an open understanding of belonging: employing Leave and Wenger’s concept of “communities of practice”, it argues that a focus on common practice in which heterogeneous actors engage, enables us to grasp, on the one hand, the varying specific characteristics of different groups and, on the other, their mutual belonging to the wider Shiite field.