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

Basu, Helene (Edited by)/ Werbner, Pnina (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 041515099X / ISBN 13: 9780415150996

Edité par Routledge, 1998

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1st edition. 243 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 041515099X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780415150996
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Brand New

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Pnina Werbner is Reader in Social Anthropology at Keele University. She has published on Sufism as a transnational cult and has a growing reputation among Islamic scholars for her work on the political imaginaries of British Islam. Helene Basu teaches Social Anthropology at the Institut für Ethnologie in Berlin. She has studied spirit possession cults and living goddesses in Gujarat, India, and in Sindh.