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In Amma's Healing Room Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • Author:  Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter
  • Author:  Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter
  • ISBN-10:  0253218373
  • ISBN-10:  0253218373
  • ISBN-13:  9780253218377
  • ISBN-13:  9780253218377
  • Publisher:  Indiana University Press
  • Publisher:  Indiana University Press
  • Pages:  320
  • Pages:  320
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2006
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2006
  • SKU:  0253218373-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0253218373-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100210551
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[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 Ammas 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 Ammas 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.

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 Sam?
Conclusion: Vernacular Islam Embedded in Relationships
Epilogue

Appendix: Death and Difference: A Conversation
Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

. . . This is a timely ethnography . . . in a time in which the high volume of negative religious rhetoric about Islam and in the name of Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity have subsumed the centrality of love in religious teachings and rituals.Georgia Author ol³Á
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