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The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite banks and skyscrapers. This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations and breaks new ground in current research.

Sufism --- Mysticism --- History --- Islam.

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Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. Divine beings give evidence through human oracles, spirits possess their human victims and are exorcized, and local gods intervene to provide healing and justice. Such practices seem to be the very antithesis of modernity and many modern, secular states have systematically attempted to eliminate them. Why are such rituals largely absent from modern societies, and what happens to them when the state attempts to expunge them from their health and justice systems, or even to criminalize them? Despite the prevalence of rituals involving some or all of these elements, The Law of Possession represents the first attempt to compare and analyze them systematically. The volume brings together historical and contemporary case studies from East Asia, South Asia, and Africa, and argues that, despite consistent attempts by states to discourage, eliminate, and criminalize them, such rituals persist and even thrive because they meet widespread human needs.

Political customs and rites. --- Spirit possession. --- Justice, Administration of.

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Hinduism --- Hindouisme --- Encyclopedias. --- Encyclopédies --- 294 --- Indische godsdiensten --- Encyclopédies --- 294.5 <03> --- Hindoeïsme. Naslagwerken --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Hinduism - Encyclopedias

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Ist Säkularisierung ein integraler Bestandteil der Moderne? Renommierte Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaftler, Historiker und Philosophen präsentieren in diesem Band unterschiedliche Zugänge zur analytischen Erfassung der Moderne und zur Rolle der Religion in modernen Gesellschaften. Damit ordnet sich das Buch ein in die aktuellen Diskussionen über Einheit und Vielfalt der Moderne, ihre Universalität und Kontingenz sowie über die Vereinbarkeit von Religion und Moderne und ihr andauerndes Spannungsverhältnis. Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Steve Bruce, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Wolfgang Knöbl, Hartmut Rosa und Charles Taylor. »Der vorliegende Band leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zu den aktuellen Diskussionen über Einheit und Vielfalt der Moderne, ihre Universalität und Kontingenz.« Helmut Reinalter, Zeitschrift für Internationale Freimaurerforschung, 34/15 (2016) »Die Konzeption des Bandes und die Qualität der Beiträge überzeugen aus zwei Gründen. Zum einen wird aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Disziplinen [...] das Spektrum der Kontroversen um die Moderne demonstriert, ohne eine spezifische Position zu privilegieren, zum anderen wird das Thema anhand zweier gut unterscheidbarer Schwerpunkte diskutiert. Thomas Mirbach, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 12.12.2013 »Eine Vielfalt von Zugängen und eine intensive kontroverse Debatte, wie religiös oder säkular die ›Epoche‹ nun wirklich ist.« Reinhard Kirste, Ein-Sichten, 7 (2013) »Dieser voluminöse [...] Band leuchtet die Kontroversen um Moderne und Religion umfassend aus.« Thomas Bernhard, www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 16.07.2013 Besprochen in: www.amazon.de, Johannes Heinrichs, 6 (2013)

Religion; Moderne; Politik; Säkularisierung; Multiple Moderne; Globalisierung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Gesellschaft; Religionssoziologie; Soziologische Theorie; Religionswissenschaft; Politikwissenschaft; Soziologie; Politics; Globalization; Society; Sociology of Religion; Sociological Theory; Religious Studies; Political Science; Sociology --- Globalization. --- Political Science. --- Politics. --- Religious Studies. --- Society. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Sociology.

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Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as ""natural"" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies

Medicine, Ayurvedic. --- Spiritual healing --- Ayurveda --- Guérison par la foi --- Mental healing. --- Spiritual healing.