Gender and Agency in the History of a West African Sufi Community: The Followers of Yacouba Sylla

Autor:	Sean Hanretta
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	History Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Gender studies Humanism West african Law Rhetoric Agency (sociology) Sociology Set (psychology) Order (virtue) Social theory media_common
Zdroj:	Comparative Studies in Society and History. 50:478-508
ISSN:	1475-2999 0010-4175
DOI:	10.1017/s0010417508000212
Popis:	The author takes on issues of agency, human and spiritual, both as a set of claims about how humans acts in society and as a set of analytical problems created and best resolved by particular forms of historical writings. Recounting the growth of a West African Sufi order founded in 1920s by Yacouba Sylla, Hanretta produces four accounts that "explain" the agency of women, who became Yacoubists in large numbers even though the movement was, in many respects, patriarchal in its organization and teachings. Each account, including one that is "less humanist" and more laert to spiritual agents, has its strenghs and weakness, but all are removed from the experiences of agency at stake in these accounts, Hanretta argues, is better treated as a problem of writing and rhetoric than as a problem of social theory.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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