L'anthropologue insouffisant: implication du corps et esprit de la voix en pays Baay Faal
(2010) Social Compass : international review of sociology of religion — Vol. 57, n° 4, p. 449-463 (2010)
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- The Baay Faal Sufi path requires from the faithful a “total and flawless” commitment to God, the saint’s shrine and the community. The deep involvement requested is based on three main dimensions that could a priori make the mystic path difficult to observe or to be introduced to: the centrality of the believer’s experience, the heart imperative and the control of the secret and the hidden. How can a researcher enthnographize a mystical religious experience? How far can the meaning and the impact of the implication and the participation in rites be understood? While trying to answer these questions, the author notably demonstrates that corporal implication in daily and ceremonial rites can strengthen the “integration” and the legitimacy of the anthropologist working in the field, although it may be insufficient to fully reach the meaning the believer gives it. It can therefore facilitate exchanges and dialogue with community members, consequently making the “exit from” the path more problematic than the “entry onto” it.
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Pezeril, C. (2010). L’anthropologue insouffisant: implication du corps et esprit de la voix en pays Baay Faal. Social Compass : international review of sociology of religion, 57(4), 449-463. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768610383370 (Original work published 2010)