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7h149p32257	Syed Eisar Haider	Local Expressions, Global Arenas: The Case of Pakistani Shia Muslims to Iraq	2021		.txt	text/plain	194	7	32	Using ten semi-structured interviews of Pakistani Shia pilgrims to Iraq for the occasion of Arba'een, I argue that in this case, local understandings of religion and culture do not change substantially because of three factors: one, the nature of religious practice is steeped in a local idiom of affective expression and can be difficult to separate local culture from religious practice; two, the structure of pilgrimage participation is made possible by local institutions (family, congregations) and structure the practice in global space; three, pilgrims orient their meaning-making processes towards their localities, and thus local space mediates any changes brought about by the pilgrimage itself. Olivier Roy theorizes – from a macro perspective – that in the face of globalization and secularization, religion attempts to become autonomous in a global space and separates from local culture and politics.	cache/7h149p32257.txt	txt/7h149p32257.txt