Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
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Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

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Helene Basu (Contributor) Pnina Werbner (Contributor)  

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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 their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations and breaks new ground in current research. It addresses the most recent debates on the encounter between Islam and modernity and presents important new comparative ethnographic material. Embodying Charisma re-examines some basic concepts in the sociology and anthropology of religion and the organization of religious movements. 1 Tables, black and white
Pnina Werbner is Reader in Social Anthropology at Keele University. She has published on Sufism as a transnational cult and has a growing reputation among Islamic scholars for her work on the political imaginaries of British Islam. Helene Basu teaches Social Anthropology at the Institut fuer Ethnologie in Berlin. She has studied spirit possession cults and living goddesses in Gujarat, India, and in Sindh.
  • Contributor: Helene Basu
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9780415150996
  • Number of Pages: 256
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 630
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 1998-06-11
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Pnina Werbner is Reader in Social Anthropology at Keele University. She has published on Sufism as a transnational cult and has a growing reputation among Islamic scholars for her work on the political imaginaries of British Islam. Helene Basu teaches Social Anthropology at the Institut fuer Ethnologie in Berlin. She has studied spirit possession cults and living goddesses in Gujarat, India, and in Sindh.

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