Medicines of the soul : female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam /

In this work, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5232954
جدول المحتويات:
  • Preliminaries
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Gender, Culture, and Religious Revival
  • 2. Female Body, Male Gaze
  • 3. Gender and Spiritual Vision
  • 4. Breast Cancer, Medicine, and the Transnational Body
  • 5. Corporal Geographies of Salvation
  • 6. Sacred Springs, Damaged Bodies
  • 7. The "Integrated" Body
  • 8. Geographies of the Sacred
  • Notes
  • Index.