Burial in cemeteries created by and on the orders of Cheikh Amadou Bamba, the founder of the Mouride Sufi order in Senegal, is said to guarantee passage to paradise. While many Mourides, understandably, prefer to have their corpses transported for burial in these cemeteries, others opt to be interred elsewhere. Focusing on the commune of Joal-Fadiouth in Senegal, I argue that the choices of Mourides concerning place of burial are influenced by histories of migration in the commune and the processes through which people develop ties to the area. In explaining Mourides’ divergent preferences, the paper sheds light on broader questions of identity and rootedness, evolving conceptions of “place of origin” – as well as illuminating interactions between the religious and non-religious spheres in the lives of many Africans. I draw mainly on ethnographic research in the Thies and Diourbel Regions of Senegal.

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穆里德在塞内加尔的严重偏好：移民、归属和根基

据说，在塞内加尔穆里德苏菲教团的创始人谢赫·阿马杜·班巴 (Cheikh Amadou Bamba) 的命令下建造的墓地中的埋葬可以保证通往天堂的通道。可以理解，虽然许多穆里德人更喜欢将他们的尸体运到这些墓地埋葬，但其他人则选择安葬在其他地方。以塞内加尔的 Joal-Fadiouth 公社为中心，我认为穆里德斯关于埋葬地点的选择受到公社移民历史以及人们与该地区建立联系的过程的影响。在解释穆里德斯的不同偏好时，该论文阐明了身份和根源、不断发展的“起源地”概念以及许多非洲人生活中宗教和非宗教领域之间的相互作用等更广泛的问题。