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Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi
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Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults Hardcover - 1998

by Helene Basu (Editor); Pnina Werbner (Editor)

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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.

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  • Title Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
  • Author Helene Basu (Editor); Pnina Werbner (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 1998-06-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780415150996 / 041515099X
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.60 cm)
  • Reading level 1370
  • Library of Congress subjects Sufism - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97037918
  • Dewey Decimal Code 297.409

About the author

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 fr Ethnologie in Berlin. She has studied spirit possession cults and living goddesses in Gujarat, India, and in Sindh.

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