The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place

by Carla Bellamy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520262816
• ISBN13: 9780520262812
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"