Embodying Charisma
Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
1st Edition
Published on 11. March 2002
254 pages
978-1-134-74693-4 (ISBN)
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.
Embodying Charisma re-examines some basic concepts in the sociology and anthropology of religion and the organization of religious movements.
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.
Embodying Charisma re-examines some basic concepts in the sociology and anthropology of religion and the organization of religious movements.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white
File size
5,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-74693-4 (9781134746934)
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Additional editions
Helene Basu | Pnina Werbner
Embodying Charisma
Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
Book
06/1998
Routledge
€206.50
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Helene Basu | Pnina Werbner
Embodying Charisma
Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
Book
06/1998
Routledge
€76.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
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 fuer Ethnologie in Berlin. She has studied spirit possession cults and living goddesses in Gujarat, India, and in Sindh.
Content
List of illustrations, List of contributors, PART 1 Introduction, PART 2 Embodying locality, PART 3 The performance of emotion, PART 4 Charisma and modernity, Name index, Subject index
