| Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults Contributor(s): Basu, Helene (Editor), Werbner, Pnina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 041515099X ISBN-13: 9780415150996 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Religion | Islam - Sufi - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 297.409 |
| LCCN: 97037918 |
| Lexile Measure: 1370 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.17 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |