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In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place's patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state's infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making with saints.
QUEER -- 572 --- ISLAM -- 572 --- Sufis --- Sufism --- Fakirs --- Sexual minority community --- Ethnology --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, - 1177-1274 --- Soufisme --- Fakirs (soufisme) --- Minorités sexuelles --- Théorie queer --- Anthropologie --- Religion --- Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, --- Shrines. --- Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalander (Sehwan, Pakistan) --- Minorités sexuelles --- Théorie queer
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Given the popularity and success of the Hindu-Right in India's electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly 'Western' concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of cognates, like secularism, secularisation and secularity in non-Western societies without assuming them simply as derivative, or colonial legacies or contrast cases of Western societies? While recognizing that the dominant language of political modernity of Western societies is not easily translatable in non-Western societies, The Secular Imaginary elaborates upon an intellectual history of secularity in modern India by focusing on the two most influential political leaders - M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. It is an intellectual history of both idea(s) and intellectuals, which sheds light on Indian narratives of secularity - the Gandhian sarva dharma samabhava, Nehruvian secularism, and unity in diversity. It revisits this dominant narrative of secularity of the twentieth century that influenced and shaped the imagination of the modern nation-state.
Secularism --- Religion and politics --- Gandhi, --- Nehru, Jawaharlal, --- Javāharalāla Neharū, --- Javāharlāl Nēru, --- Javāhir Lāl Nihrū, --- Jawāhar Lal Nihrū, --- Jawaharlal Nehru, --- Jawāhir-lal Nehru, --- Neharū, Javāharalāla, --- Nehroe, Jawaharlal, --- Neru, Dzavakharlal, --- Neru, Dzhavakharlal, --- Nēru, Javāharlāl, --- Nihrū, Javāhir Lāl, --- Nihrū, Jawāhar Lāl, --- نهرو. جواهر لعل --- نهرو، جواهرلال --- Aṇṇal Kānti, --- Gāndhi, Em. Ke., --- Gandhi, M. K. --- Gāndhī, Ma. Ka., --- Gāndhī, Mōhanadāsa Karamacanda, --- Gandhi, Mohandas, --- Gandhi, Mohandas K. --- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, --- Gāndhījī, --- Gandi, --- Gandi, M. K. --- Gāndī, Mahātamā, --- Gandi, Mahattŭma, --- Gandi, Mokhandas Karamchand, --- Gandī, Muhandās Kāramchānd, --- Ganji, Mahatoma, --- Ghāndi, --- Ghāndī, Mūhāndās Karamshānd, --- Gkanti, --- Kan-ti, --- Kandi, --- Kānti, --- Kānti, Mōkan̲tās Karamcant, --- Kāntiyaṭikaḷ, --- Mahātmā Gāndhījī, --- Mahātmājī, --- Makātmā Kānti, --- Mōhanadāsa Karamacanda Gāndhī, --- Mōkan̲tās Karamcant Kānti, --- גאנדי, מ.ק --- גאנדי, --- גנדהי, --- مهاتما گاندهى --- گاندهى، مهاتما --- گاندى، مهاتما --- گاندى، مهنداس کارمچاند --- گاندھى، --- Gandhi, Mahatma,
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