The Islamic transmission “in the making” is at the center of my work, and has been since my thesis. I analyzed the question of religious identity from an anthropology of belief and learning as well as the uses of the concept of “community”. I have shown that religious learning is a process of internalization and verbalization of belief. As part of collective research, I am currently developing an anthropology of religious authority. Thus, in 2018, I conducted a field on the status of imams in France to better understand their daily lives. I focused my analysis on their backgrounds and their training, the tasks attached to the exercise of worship, but also their relations with the faithful and their hierarchical authority, in recompositions.
Over the years, I have developed an approach based on an ethnography of detail and everyday carried out in France and Bulgaria. As part of an anthropology of belief and learning “in the making”, my questions address the various modalities of religious transmission, the offer of religious formation, the making of authorities, circulations and religious materialities.