LEADER 03164nam 22006494a 450 001 9910784664203321 005 20230207224218.0 010 $a9786612072840 010 $a1-282-07284-6 010 $a0-253-11201-X 024 7 $a2027/heb30787 035 $a(CKB)1000000000362338 035 $a(EBL)283663 035 $a(OCoLC)476030874 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177572 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169742 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177572 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215980 035 $a(PQKB)11053550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC283663 035 $a(OCoLC)86068896 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16726 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL283663 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10158074 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207284 035 $a(dli)HEB30787 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012329489 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000362338 100 $a20050713d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn Amma's healing room$b[electronic resource] $egender and vernacular Islam in South India /$fJoyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (318 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-21837-3 311 $a0-253-34721-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-283) and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: Called to Amma's Courtyard; 1 Setting the Stage: The Healing Room, Its Actors, and Its Rhythms; 2 The Healing System; 3 Patient Narratives in the Healing Room; 4 Negotiating Gender in the Healing Room; 5 Religious Identities at the Crossroads; 6 Immersed in Remembrance and Song: Religious Identities, Authority, and Gender at the Sama?; Conclusion: Vernacular Islam Embedded in Relationships; Epilogue; Appendix: Death and Difference: A Conversation; Glossary; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index 330 $a""[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives.... No other book on South Asia has material like this."" -Ann Grodzins GoldIn Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual healer in Hyderabad, South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma's practice as a form of vernacular Islam arising in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity are fluid. In the ""healing room,"" Amma meet 606 $aMuslim women$zIndia$zHyderabad (District) 606 $aHealers$zIndia$zHyderabad (District)$vBiography 607 $aHyderabad (India : District)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aMuslim women 615 0$aHealers 676 $a305.48/69739 700 $aFlueckiger$b Joyce Burkhalter$0960794 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784664203321 996 $aIn Amma's healing room$92178038 997 $aUNINA