Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab - Dreams, Memories, Territoriality

List of contents

Introduction: situating popular veneration 1 Historiography, fieldwork and debates on sacred shrines 2 Shrines, wilayat and lived landscapes 3 Dreams, memories, dissent 4 Popular art, circulation and visualization of space Epilogue: sites of memory Bibliography

About the author

Yogesh Snehi teaches history at the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, India. Previously, he was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla (2013–2015). His major teaching and research interests focus on Punjab and the debates on popular religion and its practice. Through a Tasveer Ghar fellowship, he has created a digital repository of images for the ‘heidICON’ image and multimedia database of Heidelberg University which is in circulation at Sufi shrines in contemporary Punjab. He has co-edited the book Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and Haryana (2018) and also edited the Winter 2017 issue of Summerhill: IIAS Review, Shimla.

Summary

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary north-west India. It utilizes a combination of analytical tools and new theoretical tropes to understand and situate popular Sufi shrines so that they become historicized and spatialized.

Product details

• Authors: Yogesh Snehi, Yogesh (School of Liberal Studies Snehi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367730147
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73014-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, RELIGION / General, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, ART / History / General, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Islam / Sufi, ART / Popular Culture, ART / Asian / General, India, History of art / art & design styles, mysticism, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, Sufism & Islamic Mysticism, Islamic groups: Sufis, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General