Healing secular life : loss and devotion in modern Turkey /

Show other versions (2)

Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common s...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dole, Christopher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Ã2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Contemporary ethnography.
Subjects:
Spiritual healing > Political aspects > Turkey.
Healers > Legal status, laws, etc. > Turkey.
Secularism > Turkey.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Healers > Legal status, laws, etc.
Secularism
Turkey
Anthropology.
Folklore.
Linguistics.
Ethnography.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items