ENGLISH

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

By Pnina Werbner , Helene Basu

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
9780415150996, 041515099X, 0415151007, 9780415151009, 0203278550978, 0203025202, 9780203025208, 9780203278550
LCC
BP189.23 .E45 1998
Open Library ID
OL690811M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2035111 bytes)
Pages
256\254
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

Similar books