ISBN:
0203025202
,
1134746946
,
9780203025208
,
9781134746941
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 243 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
297.4/09/049
Keywords:
1900 - 1999
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Soufisme
;
RELIGION / Islam / Sufi
;
Mysticism / Islam
;
Sufism
;
Soefisme
;
Heiligdommen
;
Cultes
;
Soufisme
;
Geschichte
;
Sufism History 20th century
;
Mysticism Islam
;
Sufismus
;
Kult
;
Südasien
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Südasien
;
Sufismus
;
Kult
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
The embodiment of charisma / Pnina Webner and Helene Basu. -- The hardware of sanctity: anthropomorphic objects in Bangladeshi Sufism / Samuel Landell Mills. -- A 'festival of flags': Hindu-Muslim devotion and the sacralising of localism at the shrine of Nagore-e-Sharif in Tamil Nadu / S.A.A. Saheb. -- 'The saint who disappeared': saints of the wilderness in Pakistani village shrines / Lukas Werth. -- Langar: pilgrimage, sacred exchange and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint's lodge / Pnina Werbner. -- Hierarchy and emotion: love, joy and sorrow in a cult of black saints in Gujarat, India / Helene Basu. -- The majzub Mama Ji Sakar: 'a friend of God moves from one house to another' / Jürger Wasim Frembgen . -- A majzub and his mother: the place of sainthood in a family's emotional memory / Katherine P. Ewing. -- The literary critique of Islamic popular religion in the guise of traditional mysticism or the abused women / Jamal Malik. -- Prophets and pirs: charismatic Islam in the Middle East and South Asia / Charles Lindholm
,
This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations. It breaks new ground in current research
Permalink
