Takhayyul Seminar: “Remaking Muslim Lives” by David Henig

The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their religious lives and societal values. David Henig draws on a decade of fieldwork to examine the historical, social, and emotional labor undertaken by people to live in an unfinished past--and how doing so shapes the present. In particular, Henig questions how contemporary religious imagination, experience, and practice infuse and interact with social forms like family and neighbourhood and with the legacies of past ruptures and critical events. His observations and analysis go to the heart of how societal and historical entanglements shape, fracture, and reconfigure religious convictions and conduct.

Henig's book addresses several themes IGP's Takhayyul project is interested in, including imagination, politics, and hope for a better life. 

David Henig is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.

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Zoom Link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/94421617393

Meeting ID: 944 2161 7393