Format:
1 Online-Ressource (282 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520262808
,
0520262816
,
0520950453
,
1280107626
,
9780520262805
,
9780520262812
,
9780520950450
,
9781280107627
Series Statement:
South Asia across the disciplines
Content:
"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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520262805
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520262808
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520262812
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520262816
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bellamy, Carla, 1971- Powerful ephemeral Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011
Language:
English
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