03123cam a2200517Mi 4500 ocn774278957 OCoLC 20200709055456.0 m d cr |n| 120130s2011 cau o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP OCLCQ N$T 9780520950450 (electronic bk.) 0520950453 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)774278957 432835 (N$T) BP189.65.F35 B45 2011 REL 090000 bisacsh 297.4/3554 297.43554 N$TA Bellamy, Carla. The Powerful Ephemeral [electronic resource] : Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. 1 online resource (308 p.) Cover; The Powerful Ephemeral; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; Prologue; Introduction. Ambiguity: Husain Tekri and Indian Dargah Culture; 1. Place: The Making of a Pilgrimage and a Pilgrimage Center; 2. People: The Tale of the Four Virtuous Women; 3. Absence: Loban, Volunteerism, and Abundance; 4. Presence: The Work and Workings of Haziri; 5. Personae: Transgression, Otherness, Cosmopolitanism, and Kinship; Conclusion. The Powerful Ephemeral: Dargah Culture in Contemporary India; Appendix A. Tarikhe Yusufi. Appendix B. Husain Tekri Kya Hai?Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. 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. Description based on print version record. Healing Religious aspects Islam. Islamic shrines India. Spiritual healing India. Sufism India. Social Science. Healing Religious aspects Islam. Spiritual healing India. Islamic shrines India. Sufism India. RELIGION / Islam / Sufi bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Bellamy, Carla Powerful Ephemeral : Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011 9780520262805 Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=847472 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=432835 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL847472 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50954 50954