Funding from the Danish Research Council
The project Pious Practices among Danish Muslims. Diversity, Devotion and Aesthetics has received funding from the Danish Research Council, 2023–2026.
By bringing Muslim pious practices, emotive persuasion and aesthetics into analytical focus, we strive for a more balanced appreciation of roles, meanings and functions that Islam can be given in the everyday life of Danish Muslims. The project aims to break new academic ground by combining methodological and theoretical insights from the anthropology of Islam with perspectives on aesthetics as a consciously used tool in religious practice.
Our focus on Denmark will facilitate an investigation into how piety practices are affected by conditions in welfare states, such as a relatively high degree of individual rights, organisational freedom, access to higher education and economic security, and analyse how diversity among Muslims is shaped beyond ethnic cultures and theological stands. How do Muslim individuals and groups piously interpret and make sense of Islam through creative, aesthetics and ritual practices other than the daily prayers and the Friday service?
Participants: Catharina Raudvere, Simon Stjernholm, Petek Onur and a so far unnamed post-doc.