Social Palliation - Canadian Muslims'' Storied Lives on Living and Dying

By focusing on the humane aspects of social palliation, this book foregrounds sacred traditions to illustrate their potential to evoke conversations across socio-political boundaries on what it is like to live and die in the contemporary world.

List of contents

Acknowledgement
Introduction
1. Research Context
2. Storied Lives
3. Precarity as a Resource for Life and Death
4. Re-Making a Home in the Diaspora
5. Negotiating Deep Divides: Foregrounding Social Palliation
Conclusion: Deep-level Conversations
Notes
References
Appendix

About the author

Parin Dossa is professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.

Summary

By focusing on the humane aspects of social palliation, this book foregrounds sacred traditions to illustrate their potential to evoke conversations across socio-political boundaries on what it is like to live and die in the contemporary world.

Product details

• Authors: Parin Dossa
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781487505233
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0523-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology