1st Edition
Embodying Charisma Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
254 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
