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Embodying charisma : modernity, locality, and performance of emotion in Sufi cults /
This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations. It breaks new ground in current research.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The embodiment of charisma / Pnina Webner and Helene Basu.
- The hardware of sanctity: anthropomorphic objects in Bangladeshi Sufism / Samuel Landell Mills.
- A 'festival of flags': Hindu-Muslim devotion and the sacralising of localism at the shrine of Nagore-e-Sharif in Tamil Nadu / S.A.A. Saheb.
- 'The saint who disappeared': saints of the wilderness in Pakistani village shrines / Lukas Werth.
- Langar: pilgrimage, sacred exchange and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint's lodge / Pnina Werbner.
- Hierarchy and emotion: love, joy and sorrow in a cult of black saints in Gujarat, India / Helene Basu.
- The majzub Mama Ji Sakar: 'a friend of God moves from one house to another' / Jürger Wasim Frembgen .
- A majzub and his mother: the place of sainthood in a family's emotional memory / Katherine P. Ewing.
- The literary critique of Islamic popular religion in the guise of traditional mysticism or the abused women / Jamal Malik.
- Prophets and pirs: charismatic Islam in the Middle East and South Asia / Charles Lindholm.