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

• Autore: Bellamy Carla <1971->
• 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
• 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
• Serie: South Asia across the disciplines.