Omar Kasmani

Queer Companions

Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Omar Kasmani theorizes the construction of queer social relations at Pakistanâ s most important Sufi site by examining the affective and intimate relationship between the siteâ s pilgrims and its patron saint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018032
• ISBN-10: 1478018038
• Artikelnr.: 62070855

Autorenporträt

Omar Kasmani is Postdoctoral Research Associate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the CRC 1171 Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin and coeditor of Muslim Matter: Photographs, Objects, Essays.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Orthography  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. On Coming Close  1
1. Infrastructures of the Imaginal  36
2. Her Stories in His Durbar  60
3. In Other Guises, Other Futures  84
4. Love in a Time of Celibacy  107
5. Worlding Fakirs, Fairies and the Dead  130
Coda. Queer Forward Slash Religion  152
Notes  165
Glossary  181
References  185
Index  201