Ramadan in Europe – A Youtube Essay IV: Eat, Pray, Fast
A five part series on the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan, among Muslims in Europe. Part IV: Eat, Pray, Fast. Iftar traditions in Europe.
Category: Ritual and Religious Experience
Ramadan in Europe – A Youtube Essay III: Body & Spirit
Ramadan in Europe: A Youtube essay. A five part series on the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan, among Muslims in Europe. Part III: contemplating about fasting in relation to the body and spirit.
Ramadan in Europe – A Youtube Essay II: Dilemma's
Ramadan in Europe: A Youtube essay. A five part series on the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan, among Muslims in Europe. Part II: Dilemma’s. With a focus on the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Ramadan in Europe – A Youtube Essay I: First Day
Ramadan in Europe: A Youtube essay. A five part series on the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan, among Muslims in Europe. Part I: the start.
Van praktijk naar publieke actie: niet-vasten tijdens de vasten
Wat niet-handenschudden en niet-vasten met elkaar gemeen hebben.
Performing Eid: Eidhearts
Eating, praying, exchange gifts and wearing new, colourful clothes, are not the only way of celebrating Eid. Also online we could witness how people from all over the world celebrated in various ways. One of the interesting, cutest and funniest ways was sending Eid hearts from all over the world on Twitter.
Moskee Slotervaart Amsterdam in Koeweit
Het eerste gebed op de dag van het suikerfeest is Salaat ul-eid. Dit jaar zond de Koeweitse televisie dit gebed live (?) uit vanuit Moskee Slotervaart in Amsterdam.
Closing the week 35 – Featuring the politics of food, fasting and feasting
A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.) This week featuring politics of food, fasting and feasting.
Religion & Film: Of Gods and Men
In 1996, during the Algerian Civil War, seven monks of the Tibhrine monastery in Algeria (belonging to the Roman Catholic Trappist Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) were kidnapped. The film of Gods and Men is based on that event and follows the lives of French Catholic monks in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria in the 1990s. As the country is caught into a terrible civil war between an oppressive secularist state and radical Islamists, the Trappist monks face the question of how to ‘love thy neighbour’ even when he points a gun at you.