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This research investigates how urban transformations affect spirit possession cults among North African migrants in Southern Europe. By comparing practices in different urban settings, it aims to understand the impact of migration and urban policies on cultural rituals and community integration.
Spirit possession cults puzzle Western observers, particularly when they appear in supposedly secular urban environments.
Muslim migrants from North Africa, seeking to establish new lives in Southern Europe, have to negotiate the continuity of such ritual practices with the constraints and expectations imposed on them by their new social contexts.
But the legitimacy of these cults is contested also in their homeland, where they face increasing pressures by religious fundamentalism.
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UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
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United States, Cambridge
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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