The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China Ha Guangtian
The Jahriyya Sufis--a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufis in northwest China--inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the "loud" (jahr)…
Specifikacia The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China Ha Guangtian
The Jahriyya Sufis--a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufis in northwest China--inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the "loud" (jahr) remembrance of God in liturgical rituals featuring distinctive melodic vocal chants.The first ethnography of this order in any language, The Sound of Salvation draws on nearly a decade of fieldwork to reveal the intricacies and importance of Jahriyya vocal recitation. Guangtian Ha examines how the use of voice in liturgy helps the Jahriyya to sustain their faith and the ways it has enabled them to endure political persecution over the past two and a half centuries. He situates the Jahriyya in a global multilingual network of Sufis and shows how their characteristic soundscapes result from transcultural interactions among Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and Chinese Muslim
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