קונגרס העולמי ה-18 למדעי היהדות

Popular religiosity and cult of Judeo-Moroccan saints

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This work, which deals with the study of the cult of saints, is for us a path to follow to trace the cultural continuity and Moroccan identity of the literary works in question.

this research is Jewish not primarily because the authors are Jewish, but because it is articulated in abut because it is articulated around Jewish themes, whose common denominator is the interpretation of their condition as Jews.

the interpretation of their condition as Jews in search, a rediscovery, a celebration of

roots in a culture and heritage lost through colonisation, immigration and assimilation.

immigration and assimilation into French language and culture. In a word, it is a

literature of identity

In order to better structure our reflection, we have made sure that it is structured around the following problematic the following problematic: to what extent can the analysis of the rituals of the cult of Jewish saints

Jewish saints reveal the existence of a common imaginary shared with the Muslim majority and the and the predominance of a Jewish-Moroccan cultural entity, which is the result of the meeting of a result of the meeting of an ethic and a plural cultural context?

In order to answer this question, we will first look at on certain notions such as popular religiosity, popular culture, the Tsadik, the Hilloula, etc. Secondly, through an anthropological overview of the cult of the cult of Judeo-Muslim saints in Morocco, as well as the analysis of some literary works, we will attempt to practices, rituals and beliefs and to illustrate the dynamics in which daily life and the constant daily life and the constant influences of community traditions combine to make the cult of the the cult of the saints as a particular aspect of a hybrid cultural identity