Afsar Mohammad

The Festival of Pirs

Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India

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Produktbeschreibung

The Festival of Pirs is an ethnographic study of the religious life of the village of Gugudu in Andhra Pradesh.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780199997596
• ISBN-10: 0199997594
• Artikelnr.: 38527474

Autorenporträt

Afsar Mohammad is Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Gugudu: The Emergence of a Shared Devotional Space
Chapter 2: The Pir with a Cap: Narrating Kullayappa
Chapter 3: Kullayappa and the Public Rituals of Muharram
Chapter 4: Faqiri: Practicing Temporary Asceticism
Chapter 5: Debating Rituals: The Politics of ''True'' Islam
Conclusion
Notes