The powerful ephemeral : everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place /
"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 religiou...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
[2011]
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| Edice: | South Asia across the disciplines.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnng0 |
Obsah:
- Introduction. Ambiguity: Ḥusain Ṭekrī and Indian dargāḥ culture
- Place: the making of a pilgrimage and a pilgrimage center
- People: the tale of the four virtuous women
- Absence: lobān, volunteerism, and abundance
- Presence: the work and the workings of ḥāẓirī
- Personae: transgression, otherness, cosmopolitanism, and kinship
- Conclusion: The powerful ephemeral: dargāḥ culture in contemporary India.