This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations and breaks new ground in current research.
This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations and breaks new ground in current research.
Pnina Werbner is Reader in Social Anthropology at Keele University. She has published on Sufism as a transnational cult and has a growing reputation among Islamic scholars for her work on the political imaginaries of British Islam. Helene Basu teaches Social Anthropology at the Institut für Ethnologie in Berlin. She has studied spirit possession cults and living goddesses in Gujarat, India, and in Sindh.
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations List of contributors PART 1 Introduction PART 2 Embodying locality PART 3 The performance of emotion PART 4 Charisma and modernity Name index Subject index
List of illustrations List of contributors PART 1 Introduction PART 2 Embodying locality PART 3 The performance of emotion PART 4 Charisma and modernity Name index Subject index
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