TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellamy,Carla
TI  - The powerful ephemeral: everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place 
T2  - South Asia across the disciplines
SN  - 9780520950450
AV  - BP189.65.F35 B45 2011 
U1  - 297.4/3554297.43554 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Healing
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Spiritual healing
KW  - India
KW  - Islamic shrines
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Guérison
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Guérison par la foi
KW  - Inde
KW  - Sanctuaires musulmans
KW  - Soufisme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Sufi
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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
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