Sociabilities and Religiosities in Urban Senegal
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2023
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Merian Institute for Advances Studies in Africa (MIASA)
Abstract
This article addresses the question of how social positioning and stratification influence religious diversity in
urban Senegal. The author approaches religious diversity from a sociological point of view, with a
methodological focus on intra-religious diversification. Based on contrastive case studies carried out in
Dakar, the article analyses how forms of sociability that are characteristic of a specific social milieu contribute
to distinctive religious identities and how people’s social embeddedness shapes their own religious self positioning. Linking Georg Simmel’s (1984) concept of sociability with the formations of individual
religiosities, the article provides an empirically grounded theoretical reflection on the interrelatedness of
religious diversity with social heterogeneity in urban West Africa.
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Senegal, intra-religious diversity, individual religiosities, sociability, urban social milieus