Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

by Helene Basu (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  1998

  $56.34

  An examination of the Sufi Cults which exist in all areas of India and Bangladesh. Provides details of the resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations. The most recent debates on the ecounter between Islam and modernity are addressed and comparative ethnographic material is used.