LEADER 04356nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910817598303321 005 20240214190309.0 010 $a1-283-89911-6 010 $a0-8122-0635-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206357 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065376 035 $a(OCoLC)822017770 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642698 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713900 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11477108 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713900 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10658864 035 $a(PQKB)10441454 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17517 035 $a(DE-B1597)449599 035 $a(OCoLC)979741174 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206357 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441946 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642698 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421161 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441946 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065376 100 $a20120228d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHealing secular life $eloss and devotion in modern Turkey /$fChristopher Dole 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$dc2012. 215 $a1 online resource (302 pages) 225 1 $aContemporary Ethnography. 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4416-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Medicine and the Will to Civilization --$tChapter 2. Healing Difference at the Limits of Community --$tChapter 3. Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of Secular Life --$tChapter 4. The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, Value --$tChapter 5. A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of Relations --$tChapter 6. Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of Loss --$tConclusion: Fragments --$tAppendix: Genres of Healing --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn contemporary Turkey-a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation-the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstitious relics of a pre-modern era. Yet all sorts of people, and not just the desperately ill, continue to seek them out. After years of research with healers and their patients in working-class neighborhoods of urban Turkey, anthropologist Christopher Dole concludes that the religious healer should be regarded not as an exception to Turkey's secular modern development but as one of its defining figures. Healing Secular Life demonstrates that religious healing and secularism in fact have a set of common stakes in the ordering of lives and the remaking of worlds. Linking the history of medical reforms and scientific literacy campaigns to contemporary efforts of Qur'anic healers to treat people afflicted by spirits and living saints through whom deceased political leaders speak, Healing Secular Life approaches stories of healing and being healed as settings for examining the everyday social intimacies of secular political rule. This ethnography of loss, care, and politics reveals not only that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within the history of secular modern reform in Turkey but also that personal narratives of suffering and affliction are inseparable from the story of a nation seeking to recover from the violence of its own secular past. 410 0$aContemporary ethnography. 606 $aSpiritual healing$xPolitical aspects$zTurkey 606 $aHealers$xLegal status, laws, etc$zTurkey 606 $aSecularism$zTurkey 606 $aEthnography 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 615 0$aSpiritual healing$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aHealers$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aSecularism 615 0$aEthnography. 676 $a615.8/5209561 700 $aDole$b Christopher$01614228 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817598303321 996 $aHealing secular life$93943956 997 $aUNINA