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- Mini-Symposium on Educational Neuroscience8:00 am
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- Will Fracking Come to Massachusetts?12:00 pm
- Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar12:00 pm
- Islamic Charity, Reformism, and the Welfare State in India 12:00 pm
- Literary Translation Lecture Series1:00 pm
- The Spanish of second generation bilinguals in New York: A linguistic approach1:00 pm
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- Waybe Weible Lecture on Medjugorje6:00 pm
Islamic Charity, Reformism, and the Welfare State in India
Chris Taylor, BU Anthropology Grad Student The growing poverty among Indian Muslims, starkly visible in the statistical gaze of recent government reports, is an increasingly discussed concern for many Islamic reformists. Some see this as evidence that Muslims are neglecting zakat (almsgiving) and thus their faith. These contemporary Islamic social welfare practitioners are willing – even insistent – on close engagement with the non-Islamic state in India. In this way, I argue, these 'ulama (Muslim clergy) are making a break from earlier Islamic reformist movements such as Deoband, Jamaat-e Islami, or the Tablighi Jamaat who avoided the secular state. In this talk, I explore the irony that, in the bureaucracy of India’s social democratic state and its capability for statistical Foucaudian biopower, Muslims may have acquired an ally in this aspect of their efforts for Islamic revival.
When | 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm on Friday, April 19, 2013 |
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Building | Anthropology Seminar Room, 232 BSR #102 |
Fees | Free |