Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195173048
- eISBN:
- 9780199872091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173048.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
By focusing on the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (milad) by South Asian Muslim women in Edmonton, Canada, this chapter refocuses the usual consideration of Islam as public and ...
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By focusing on the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (milad) by South Asian Muslim women in Edmonton, Canada, this chapter refocuses the usual consideration of Islam as public and male-oriented. Immigrant and ethnic Canadian Muslim women gather in homes and perform the prayers and recited texts that are not strictly considered music, employing texts and styles that are gathered from different traditions. The Arabic and Urdu languages are used separately and together, and distinctive styles and genres of worship are mixed to create musical practices traditional in Islam and new to Canada. The creativity of the Muslim women is considerable as it further creates new spaces for Islam that then becomes part of their religious and immigrant experiences in Canada.Less
By focusing on the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (milad) by South Asian Muslim women in Edmonton, Canada, this chapter refocuses the usual consideration of Islam as public and male-oriented. Immigrant and ethnic Canadian Muslim women gather in homes and perform the prayers and recited texts that are not strictly considered music, employing texts and styles that are gathered from different traditions. The Arabic and Urdu languages are used separately and together, and distinctive styles and genres of worship are mixed to create musical practices traditional in Islam and new to Canada. The creativity of the Muslim women is considerable as it further creates new spaces for Islam that then becomes part of their religious and immigrant experiences in Canada.
Jay Dobbin and Francis X. Hezel
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832032
- eISBN:
- 9780824870386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832032.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter focuses on the religion of Palau, studying the three charter myths that set forth not only the Palauan beliefs about the gods and the cosmos but also beliefs about the social structure. ...
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This chapter focuses on the religion of Palau, studying the three charter myths that set forth not only the Palauan beliefs about the gods and the cosmos but also beliefs about the social structure. These three charter myths show two eras in the evolution of Palauan social structure, the archaic and the new, in which three beings or goddesses—Latmikaik, Chuab, and Milad—closely interact with the sky gods to produce the polity of Palau. In these myths, the gods prepare Palau for human habitation. The end result is a Palau populated by human beings with power and dominance resting in four village/district complexes: Imiungs, Melekeok, Imelik, and Koror.Less
This chapter focuses on the religion of Palau, studying the three charter myths that set forth not only the Palauan beliefs about the gods and the cosmos but also beliefs about the social structure. These three charter myths show two eras in the evolution of Palauan social structure, the archaic and the new, in which three beings or goddesses—Latmikaik, Chuab, and Milad—closely interact with the sky gods to produce the polity of Palau. In these myths, the gods prepare Palau for human habitation. The end result is a Palau populated by human beings with power and dominance resting in four village/district complexes: Imiungs, Melekeok, Imelik, and Koror.
