TY  - GEN
T1  - The powerful ephemeral : everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place
T2  - South Asia across the disciplines.
A1  - Bellamy, Carla, 1971-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn774278957
AB  - "The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. In this accessible and groundbreaking ethnography, Carla Bellamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims' narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, Bellamy considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. Grounded in stories from individual lives and experiences, The Powerful Ephemeral offers not only a humane, highly readable portrait of dargah culture, but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India"--Provided by publisher
OP  - 282
CN  - BP189.65.F35 B45 2011
SN  - 9780520950450
SN  - 0520950453
SN  - 1280107626
SN  - 9781280107627
SN  - 9780520262805
SN  - 0520262808
SN  - 9780520262812
SN  - 0520262816
KW  - Healing : Religious aspects : Islam.
KW  - Spiritual healing : India.
KW  - Islamic shrines : India.
KW  - Sufism : India.
KW  - Guérison : Aspect religieux : Islam.
KW  - Guérison par la foi : Inde.
KW  - Sanctuaires musulmans : Inde.
KW  - Soufisme : Inde.
KW  - RELIGION : Islam : Sufi.
KW  - Healing : Religious aspects : Islam
KW  - Spiritual healing
KW  - Islamic shrines
KW  - Sufism
KW  - India
ER  -