Powerful Ephemeral - Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place

Zusatztext "One of the best books on possession healing to appear! [and] on the construction of local religious culture in India." Informationen zum Autor Carla Bellamy is Assistant Professor of South Asian Religion at Baruch College. Klappentext "Bellamy's powerful analyses push back against many assumptions and 'inherited wisdom' in South Asian scholarship about religion! personhood! the body! health and violence. The author makes a concerted effort to understand the healing processes at Husain Tekri from within indigenous categories and understanding." -Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger! author of In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India Zusammenfassung The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. This title traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India.

Product details

• Authors: Carla Bellamy, Bellamy Carla
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2011
• EAN: 9780520262812
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26281-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli; South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology