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.
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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| Länkar: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5232954 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.