Kathryn Spellman Poots


Kathryn Spellman-Poots is Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University Institute.

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OccupationAssociate Professor and Author

EducationEdit

  • Ph.D in politics and sociology, Birkbeck college, university of London, 1995 -2000
  • MA  in politics and sociology, Birkbeck college, university of London, 1994 – 1995
  • BA honors in combined social sciences , Richmond I University, 1991 -1994
  • MA in sociology, Marquette University ,1989-1991

Books and ArticlesEdit

Her vision towards AshuraEdit

In one of Kathryn Spellman’s books, Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual performances and every day practices, she started the 4th chapter with this title: ”Manifestation of Ashura among young British Shi’is”. In this chapter, she describes the way that British Shi’is practice religious rituals of “Ashura” through public performances in British society.

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