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Accepted Paper:

The Ritual as Object: Shi'i Muslim Rituals in Leipzig, Germany  
Adam Bobeck (University of Leipzig)

Paper short abstract:

This paper presents a study of Twelver Shi'i Muslim rituals in Leipzig Germany. I focus on the ways Shi'i Muslims create rituals. The paper will specifically examine Muharram rituals through the lens of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). The research presents new questions of power and relationality.

Paper long abstract:

This paper presents a study of Twelver Shi'i Muslim rituals in Leipzig Germany. Based on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, I focus on the ways Shi'i Muslims create rituals, both individually and in communal settings. The paper will specifically examine Muharram rituals through the lens of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). By investigating Muharram rituals as an object, rather than as a socio-cultural occurrence or event, the research presents new questions of power and relationality. Furthermore, OOO starts from a flat ontology, which opens up the space to consider both human and non-human components that emerge together as elements of the ritual. This post-humanist perspective challenges traditional dichotomies between subjects and objects, nature and culture, and local and global, which calls into question the ontological precepts of the anthropology of Islam.

Panel P109
Anthropologies of Islam: Identity, Meaning and Practices
  Session 1 Friday 24 July, 2020, -