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  • The Law of Possession

    Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State

    Modifié par William S. Sax, Helene Basu ...
    Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. Divine beings give evidence through human oracles, spirits possess their human victims and are ... En savoir plus

    $37.59 CAD

  • Embodying Charisma

    Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

    Modifié par Helene Basu, Pnina Werbner ...
    The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers.This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

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  • The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions

    Modifié par John R. Hinnells ...
    Comprehensive, informative and authoritative, The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions is compiled by a team of leading international scholars, and is the definitive guide to the religious belief systems and practices of the world today. This in-depth survey of active religions has now been fully updated to include modern developments and the most recent scholarship. It explains the ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

    Remembering 1971

    par Yasmin Saikia ...
    Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Aga Khan Case

    religion and identity in colonial India

    par Teena Purohit ...
    An Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam. Purohit presses for a view of Islam as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts. The Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Fundamentalism

    Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization

    par Torkel Brekke ...
    This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, considering examples from Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. The book argues that fundamentalism develops when modern lay religious leaders challenge the authority of secular states and traditional religious establishments. These new leaders ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Sufism in the West

    Modifié par Jamal Malik, John Hinnells ...
    With the increasing Muslim diaspora in post-modern Western societies, Sufism – intellectually as well as sociologically – may eventually become Islam itself due to its versatile potential. Although Sufism has always provoked considerable interest in the West, no volume has so far been written which discusses this aspect of Islam in terms of how it is practised in Western societies.Bringing ... En savoir plus

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  • Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India

    par Kelly Pemberton ...
    Collections series Studies in Comparative Religion
    Insightful field research into the complexity of women's roles in a subset of Islamic culture.Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood. Kelly ... En savoir plus

    $63.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Language of History

    Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule

    par Audrey Truschke ...
    For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity

    par Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, Christopher Shackle ...
    This book brings together new approaches to the study of Sikh religion, culture and ethnicity being pursued in the diaspora by Sikh academics in western universities in Britain and North America. An important aspect of the volume is the diversity of topics that are engaged - including film and gender theory, theology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, semiotics and race theory - and brought to bear on ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • Jinnealogy

    Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi

    par Anand Vivek Taneja ...
    Collections series South Asia in Motion
    In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Passage to Peace

    Global Solutions from East and West

    par Nur Yalman, Daisaku Ikeda ...
    'The seas do not separate us; rather, they bring us closer together.' Daisaku Ikeda's opening words to this consistently wide-ranging dialogue set the scene for what follows. For the theme of the book is that of the meeting of minds that follows interaction between peoples who might be geographically distant but who share much in common. Reflecting on his memories of standing on the shores of the ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD