1st Edition
Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the ‘Self’ Gender in Islamic Ritual
Introduction
1 The Salikun journey begins
2 From theory to practice
3 The inner Islam: an overview of Sufism and Sufi notions of the body
4 Dancing with God: hadra as sacred dance and cultural embodiment
5 ‘De-code’ hadra: body movement analysis of the ritual practice
6 Symbolic embodied practice: the Sufi ‘mystical body’ and women’s religious identity
7 Let the bird fly’ … somatic practice and hadra performance, the embodied experience
8 The salikun journey ends
Biography
Jamila Rodrigues is a dance anthropologist currently working in Japan. She was awarded a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellowship to conduct research on Japanese women and well-being during times of crisis hosted by the International Research Centre in Kyoto (Nichibunken).
