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100 1 0 _aAmo, Kae
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245 0 0 _aFemale Muslim Students in Senegal. An Ethnography of Religious and Identity Diversity on University Campuses
260 _c2022.
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520 _a‪This ethnography focuses on the different behaviors and self-interpretations of young female university students in Senegal regarding their status as women, students, and disciples (Murids, Tidjanes or “ibadou”). They call upon multiple references, religious or not. I produced this ethnography between 2003 and 2015, a period covering the era of Abdoulaye Wade and the beginning of the mandate of Macky Sall, his successor as president. Based on observations and discourses collected from Muslim students, this article aims to describe as closely as possible the diversity of these students’ cultural and/or religious behaviors. Although coming from different social categories and backgrounds, they belong to what can be called today the “elite popular class” or “suspended” middle class. Integrated into new life places that are the public universities of Dakar and Saint-Louis, these young women consume but also produce multiple social, cultural, and religious values under the influence of different references: liberalism, Western modernity, movements of “return to Islam,” or even a new form of Sufi spiritualism.‪
690 _aethnography
690 _areturn to Islam
690 _afemale Muslim students
690 _aworking class
690 _aSenegal
690 _aethnography
690 _areturn to Islam
690 _afemale Muslim students
690 _aworking class
690 _aSenegal
786 0 _nCahiers d’études africaines | o 248 | 4 | 2022-11-28 | p. 797-827 | 0008-0055
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-cahiers-d-etudes-africaines-2022-4-page-797?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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