عنوان

Power, Ideology and Authority

شماره

LA107154

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Power, Ideology and Authority

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jonah Blank

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In many religious (and other) communities, a dispute about ideology is often more accurately understood as a dispute about authority and power. Such a conflict may progress through three stages, each one more deeply challenging to the legitimacy of traditional authority structures. Whether the challenge ultimately succeeds or fails, its impact may reach far beyond the immediate issue ostensibly in contention: What might start as a narrowly-defined question of ideology or theology may evolve into a comprehensive rejection of the dominant authority's moral foundation. This article examines such a dynamic through two case studies from the Daudi Bohra community, a denomination of Shi'a Islam spread across Asia, Africa, and four other continents. The first case involves a century-long contestation between the denomination's apex cleric and a group of dissidents over the proper limits of clerical control. The second case, unfolding in 2014, involves a clerical dispute over succession to the hegemonic office of da'i-al mutlaq. In both cases, the Bohra experience in dealing with issues of ideology and authority provides an example illustrative of a dynamic found in many religious communities worldwide. In many religious (and other) communities, a dispute about ideology is often more accurately understood as a dispute about authority and power. Such a conflict may progress through three stages, each one more deeply challenging to the legitimacy of traditional authority structures. Whether the challenge ultimately succeeds or fails, its impact may reach far beyond the immediate issue ostensibly in contention: What might start as a narrowly-defined question of ideology or theology may evolve into a comprehensive rejection of the dominant authority's moral foundation. This article examines such a dynamic through two case studies from the Daudi Bohra community, a denomination of Shi'a Islam spread across Asia, Africa, and four other continents. The first case involves a century-long contestation between the denomination's apex cleric and a group of dissidents over the proper limits of clerical control. The second case, unfolding in 2014, involves a clerical dispute over succession to the hegemonic office of da'i-al mutlaq. In both cases, the Bohra experience in dealing with issues of ideology and authority provides an example illustrative of a dynamic found in many religious communities worldwide.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

82-102

عنوان

African and Asian Studies

شماره جلد

16/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-2108

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Asian Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

authority

اصطلاح موضوعی

Bohra

اصطلاح موضوعی

diaspora

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

اصطلاح موضوعی

identity

اصطلاح موضوعی

ideology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Islam

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social Sciences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jonah Blank

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15692108-12341372

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y