Arabist Preachers in Dakar and in Ouagadougou
From a series of ethnographical grounds led to Dakar and to Ouagadougou, the logics of spiritual ascent of women’s various generation’s preachers and the social uses that they make as means of communication are examined. This article demonstrates that their ascent results from the link in the community. Although the logic of individuation is highlighted, signs of emphasis of their individuality, without abandoning the community, allow reporting a subtle process of hybridization between individualization and individuation. This prospect is also analyzed through certain speeches of preachers, which reveal how the latter navigate between various registers of agency (compliant agency, pious agency and pious critical agency) according to their distance, resistance or acceptance in front of logics of social reproduction, in front of the standards of religious order and in front of the reports of authority.