In Amma's healing room : gender and vernacular Islam in South India

In Amma's healing room : gender and vernacular Islam in South India / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.

Ethnographic study of a charismatic Muslim woman healer whose practice crosses gender and religious boundaries.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Muslim women > India > Hyderabad (District)
Healers > India > Hyderabad (District) > Biography.
Spiritual healing.
Women.
Islam.
women (female humans)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Healers
Manners and customs
Muslim women
Heilerin
Muslimin
Healers > India > Hyderabad (District)
Hyderabad (India : District) > Social life and customs.
India > Hyderabad (District)
Distrikt Hyderabad
Hyderabad (India) > Social life and customs.
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 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 Samā; Conclusion: Vernacular Islam Embedded in Relationships; Epilogue; Appendix: Death and Difference: A Conversation; Glossary; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

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