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Politics of worship in the contemporary Middle East : sainthood in fragile states /
Sainthood in Fragile States investigates how precariousness and ambiguity are embedded in saint worship. The book explores the intersections between religious and secular figures to show the role of sainthood and its contestation in the contemporary Middle East.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ;
v. 111. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Sainthood in Fragile States; Part One Sustained Sainthood; Contesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous Healing among Twelver Shi'is in Contemporary Syria; Saints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic Cults of Egyptian Revolution from Alexandria to Maspero; Part Two Contested Representations; Enigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating Media Conspiracies in an Age of Terror; The Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin Heritage in Jordan; Part Three Indeterminate Sainthood.
- Our Lady of Soufanieh: On Knowledge, Ignorance and Indifference among the Christians of DamascusEcstatic Sainthood and Austere Sunni Islam: A majzūb in Northern Pakistan; Part Four Secular Sainthood; Imbued with Agency: Contesting Notions of the Extraordinariness of Türkan Saylan; The Secular Saint: Iconography and Ideology in the Cult of Bashir Jumayil; Index.