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Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

Name: Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
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ISBN: 9780203278550

Pnina Werbner, Helene Basu

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The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has "died" in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers. 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. It addresses the most recent debates on the encounter between Islam and modernity and presents important new comparative ethnographic material.

Request Code : ZLIBIO571032

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Year:

1998

Language:

English

Pages:

256

ISBN 10:

0203025202

ISBN 13:

9780203278550