Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

The powerful ephemeral [[electronic resource] ] : everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place / / Carla Bellamy



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Bellamy Carla <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The powerful ephemeral [[electronic resource] ] : everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place / / Carla Bellamy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
Disciplina: 297.4/3554
Soggetto topico: Healing - Religious aspects - Islam
Spiritual healing - India
Islamic shrines - India
Sufism - India
Soggetto non controllato: british india
contemporary india
dargah culture
hindu devotees
india daily life
india religion
indian anthropology
indian archives
indian culture
indian ethnography
indian history
indian religion
indian rituals and customs
islam books
islam
making a pilgrimage
muslim and hinduism
muslim history
muslim pilgrims
muslim saint shrines
nature of religion
northwest india
northwestern india
religious archives
religious conflict
religious history
religious identity
religious studies
theology
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Ambiguity: Hụsain Tẹkrī and Indian dargāh ̣culture -- Place: the making of a pilgrimage and a pilgrimage center -- People: the tale of the four virtuous women -- Absence: lobān, volunteerism, and abundance -- Presence: the work and the workings of hạ̄zịrī -- Personae: transgression, otherness, cosmopolitanism, and kinship -- Conclusion: The powerful ephemeral: dargāh ̣culture in contemporary India.
Sommario/riassunto: The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. In this accessible and groundbreaking ethnography, Carla Bellamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims' narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, Bellamy considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. Grounded in stories from individual lives and experiences, The Powerful Ephemeral offers not only a humane, highly readable portrait of dargah culture, but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India.
Titolo autorizzato: The powerful ephemeral  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-10762-6
0-520-95045-3
9786613520623
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786710003321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: South Asia across the disciplines.