Construction of sufi membership in the argentine cultural context and transnational network

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the construction of the membership of the Naqshbandi Haqqani sufi groups in the argentine cultural network. This analysis is done in the light of religious transnational processes, so far as the result of the movement of objects and symbols of sufi significance by individual developers, or network of (re) locations sufi spaces in local territories. To carry out this investigation we have used the historical narrative of several Argentine turuq belonging to this order, as well also the circumstances in which membership takes place nowadays. This work is supported on observations and in-depth interviews with engaging members from different communities. To reflect how the membership of these groups occurs, we evoke the discussions about relationship between culture and identity, or rather the dislocation of that relationship.