It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
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Abdellah HammoudiAbdellah Hammoudi was born in Morocco in 1945 and currently lives in the US where he is a professor of anthropology at Princeton University. His previous books include Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism and The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb (1993). Recent articlesA season in Mecca: narrative of a pilgrimage In this fifth extract from the Ulysses Prize shortlist, Moroccan anthropologist Abdellah Hammoudi decides to fulfil his duty as a good Muslim and embark on the great pilgrimage to Mecca. The experience is mixed, and spirituality for this secular Muslim comes at the cost of increasing commercialisation of the ritual and disputes over religious practice. |
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