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In Amma's healing room: gender and vernacular Islam in South India

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
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  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE (page XI)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xv)
  • A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION (page xix)
  • Introduction: Called to Amma's Courtyard (page 1)
  • 1. Setting the Stage: The Healing Room, Its Actors, and Its Rhythms (page 36)
  • 2. The Healing System (page 64)
  • 3. Patient Narratives in the Healing Room (page 106)
  • 4. Negotiating Gender in the Healing Room (page 136)
  • 5. Religious Identities at the Crossroads (page 168)
  • 6. Immersed in Remembrance and Song: Religious Identities, Authority, and Gender at the Samā (page 201)
  • Conclusion: Vernacular Islam Embedded in Relationships (page 235)
  • Epilogue (page 241)
  • APPENDIX: DEATH AND DIFFERENCE: A CONVERSATION (page 251)
  • GLOSSARY (page 255)
  • NOTES (page 259)
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 275)
  • INDEX (page 285)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AQ 80.3 (Summer 2007): 915-918 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30052734
JAS 66.3 (Aug. 2007): 861-863 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20203225
MRW 4.2 (Winter 2009): 228-231 http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/magic_ritual_and_witchcraft/v004/4.2.lamb.html
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Published: c2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780253347213 (hardcover)
  • 9780253112019 (ebook)
  • 9780253218377 (paper)
Subject
  • Religion
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