Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

In Amma's Healing Room

Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion at Emory University and author of Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 451g
• ISBN-13: 9780253218377
• ISBN-10: 0253218373
• Artikelnr.: 22189963

Autorenporträt

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion at Emory University and author of Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Called to Amma's Courtyard
1. Setting the Stage: The Healing Room, Its Actors, and Its Rhythms
2. The Healing System
3. Patient Narratives in the Healing Room
4. Negotiating Gender in the Healing Room
5. Religious Identities at the Crossroads
6. Immersed in Remembrance and Song: Religious Identities, Authority, and
Gender at the Sam?
Conclusion: Vernacular Islam Embedded in Relationships
Epilogue
Appendix: Death and Difference: A Conversation
Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index