ANTH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Talal Asad, Islamic Revival
10 Apr 2017
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Passional preaching, aural sensibility, and the islamic revival in cairo. Talal asad - anthropologist on islamic revival. People buy them on the black market, some people create and distribute their own. Allows them to put away material concerns and just feel close to god. Music produces relaxation but not moral feeling. Have similar effects but sermons make you want to listen closer. Seek god not just in cognitive snes but assume attitudes and perform responding acts of understanding. Cassette technology makes this kind of knowledge possible in urban modern areas. Controversies over orthodoxy in islam - express relationships of power.
