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

Author/creator Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press,
Descriptionxix, 294 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction : called to Amma's courtyard -- Setting the stage : the healing room, its actors, and its rhythms -- The healing system -- Patient narratives in the healing room -- Negotiating gender in the healing room -- 5. Religious identities at the crossroads -- Immersed in remembrance and song : religious identities, authority, and gender at the Sama -- Conclusion : vernacular Islam embedded in relationships -- App. Death and difference : a conversation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005019837
ISBN9780253347213 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN0253347211 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780253218377 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN0253218373 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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