In Amma''s Healing Room - Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India

Informationen zum Autor Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger Klappentext Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion at Emory University and author of Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India. Zusammenfassung Ethnographic study of a charismatic Muslim woman healer whose practice crosses gender and religious boundaries Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction: Called to Amma's Courtyard 1. Setting the Stage: The Healing Room, Its Actors, and Its Rhythms 2. The Healing System 3. Patient Narratives in the Healing Room 4. Negotiating Gender in the Healing Room 5. Religious Identities at the Crossroads 6. Immersed in Remembrance and Song: Religious Identities, Authority, and Gender at the Sam? Conclusion: Vernacular Islam Embedded in Relationships Epilogue Appendix: Death and Difference: A Conversation Glossary Notes Select Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Flueckiger Joyce Burkhalter
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2006
• EAN: 9780253218377
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21837-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology