Embodying Charisma (eBook, PDF)

Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
Redaktion: Basu, Helene; Werbner, Pnina

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134746941
• Artikelnr.: 42677179

Autorenporträt

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