Reenacting the past, negotiating the present : ʻArus-i Qonraysh ritual of Iranian women / Sabine Kalinock -- Sofrih and walima : food as ritual in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Faegheh Shirazi -- Gageriveh, Bakhtiari women's lamentation : between self-suffering and tribal identity / Pedram Khosronejad -- Healing rituals among female Turkmans of Iran / Manijeh Maghsudi -- Feelings, funerals and female Muslim-Hui in southwest Shandong China / Su Min -- Methodological implications of the researcher's gender and religion : reflections on fieldwork with Sufi women in Istanbul / Anna Neubauer -- Women transferring Shia rituals in western Migrancy / Ingvild Flaskerud