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

English · Paperback / Softback

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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

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