Healing Secular Life : Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey /

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In contemporary Turkey-a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation-the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstiti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dole, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
Colección:Contemporary Ethnography
Temas:
Healers > Legal status, laws, etc > Turkey.
Healers > Legal status, laws, etc. > Turkey.
Secularism > Turkey.
Spiritual healing > Political aspects > Turkey.
Folklore.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Anthropology.
Linguistics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Medicine and the Will to Civilization
  • Chapter 2. Healing Difference at the Limits of Community
  • Chapter 3. Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of Secular Life
  • Chapter 4. The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, Value
  • Chapter 5. A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of Relations
  • Chapter 6. Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of Loss
  • Conclusion: Fragments
  • Appendix: Genres of Healing
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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