In Amma's Healing Room - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Amma's Healing Room write by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. This book was released on 2006-04-26. In Amma's Healing Room available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives. . . . No other book on South Asia has material like this." —Ann Grodzins Gold In Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual healer in Hyderabad, South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma's practice as a form of vernacular Islam arising in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity are fluid. In the "healing room," Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men and women, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian, of varied social backgrounds, who bring a wide range of physical, social, and psychological afflictions. Flueckiger collaborated closely with Amma and relates to her at different moments as daughter, disciple, and researcher. The result is a work of insight and compassion that challenges widely held views of religion and gender in India and reveals the creativity of a tradition often portrayed by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as singular and monolithic.
In Amma'S Healing Room (Pul)
In Amma'S Healing Room (Pul) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Amma'S Healing Room (Pul) write by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. This book was released on 2008-01-01. In Amma'S Healing Room (Pul) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Amma s Healing Room is a vivid and compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual leader Amma to her family and disciples who lives and practices in the city of Hyderabad in South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma s practice as a form of vernacular Islam that has arisen in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism and Christianity are fluid. In the healing room, Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men as well as women, and people of various religious and social backgrounds. Seated at a small table, writing amulets in Arabic while her husband, Abba, himself a Sufi master, operates a small store catering to the waiting crowd, Amma advises her disciples, who come to her with a wide range of physical, social and physiological afflictions. Even as she declares that the most important distinction among humans is that of gender, not religion, Amma crosses those boundaries to practice in a traditionally male ritual role, and must continually recreate and maintain her authortity as healer to meet the public . Flueckiger s collaboration with Amma over a number of years is an integral part of the story she tells. Much of Amma s complex cosmology is presented in her own words. The author describes her research methods and growing understanding of her material in terms of a deepening relationship with Amma, to whom she related at different moments as daughter, disciple and researcher. The resulting study is a work of insight and compassion that challenges widely held views of religion and gender in India as it reveals the creativity of a tradition too often portrayed by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as singular and monolithic.
Everyday Life in South Asia
Everyday Life in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Life in South Asia write by Diane P. Mines. This book was released on 2010. Everyday Life in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the peoples and cultures of South Asia
Lines in Water
Lines in Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lines in Water write by Eliza F. Kent. This book was released on 2013-07-12. Lines in Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When asked to distinguish between different faiths, Mughal prince Dara Shikoh is said to have replied, "How do you draw a line in water?" Inspired by this question, the essays in this volume illustrate how ordinary people in South Asia and the diaspora negotiate their religious identities and encounters in creative, complex, and diverse ways. Taking the approach that narratives "from below" provide the richest insight into the dynamics of religious pluralism, the authors examine life histories, oral traditions, cartographic practices, pilgrimage rites, and devotional music and songs. Drawing on both ethnographic and historical data, they illuminate how, like lines in water, religious boundaries are dynamic, fluid, flexible, and permeable rather than permanently fixed, frozen, and inviolable. A distinct feature of the volume is its proposition of a fresh and innovative typology of boundary dynamics. Boundaries may be attractive or porous, firmly drawn or transcended. Attractive boundaries invite confluence while affirming the differences between self and other, whereas permeable boundaries facilitate exchanges that create new identities and in turn form new lines. Although people may recognize the significance of religious borders, they can choose to transcend them. Throughout this volume, the authors highlight the fascinating range of South Asian religious and cultural traditions.
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue write by Catherine Cornille. This book was released on 2013-03-13. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive volume brings together a distinguished editorial team, including some of the field’s pioneers, to explore the aims, practice, and historical context of interfaith collaboration. Explores in full the background, history, objectives, and discourse between the leaders and practitioners of the world’s major religions Examines relations between religions from around the world, moving well beyond the common focus on Christianity, to also cover over 12 major religions Features a wealth of case studies on contemporary interreligious dialogue Charts a long-term shift away from a competitive rivalry between belief systems, and a change in focus towards the more respectful, cooperative approach reflected in institutions such as the World Council of Churches Includes up-to-date commentary on the growing dialogue of recent years, written by some of the leading figures working in the field of interfaith discourse
