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The powerful ephemeral : everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place
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ISBN: 1280107626 0520950453 9786613520623 9780520950450 9781280107627 9780520262805 0520262808 9780520262812 0520262816 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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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 of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims' narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, Bellamy considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. Grounded in stories from individual lives and experiences, The Powerful Ephemeral offers not only a humane, highly readable portrait of dargah culture, but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India.


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Seals, sealings and tokens from Bactria to Gandhara (4th to 8th century CE)
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ISBN: 9783700168973 3700168977 Year: 2011 Volume: 421 52 2 Publisher: Wien Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

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