In Ammas Healing Room

Author : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025311201X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Amma's Healing Room written by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives. . . . No other book on South Asia has material like this." —Ann Grodzins Gold In Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual healer in Hyderabad, South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma's practice as a form of vernacular Islam arising in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity are fluid. In the "healing room," Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men and women, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian, of varied social backgrounds, who bring a wide range of physical, social, and psychological afflictions. Flueckiger collaborated closely with Amma and relates to her at different moments as daughter, disciple, and researcher. The result is a work of insight and compassion that challenges widely held views of religion and gender in India and reveals the creativity of a tradition often portrayed by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as singular and monolithic.

Author : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788125033653
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Amma'S Healing Room (Pul) written by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Amma s Healing Room is a vivid and compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual leader Amma to her family and disciples who lives and practices in the city of Hyderabad in South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma s practice as a form of vernacular Islam that has arisen in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism and Christianity are fluid. In the healing room, Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men as well as women, and people of various religious and social backgrounds. Seated at a small table, writing amulets in Arabic while her husband, Abba, himself a Sufi master, operates a small store catering to the waiting crowd, Amma advises her disciples, who come to her with a wide range of physical, social and physiological afflictions. Even as she declares that the most important distinction among humans is that of gender, not religion, Amma crosses those boundaries to practice in a traditionally male ritual role, and must continually recreate and maintain her authortity as healer to meet the public . Flueckiger s collaboration with Amma over a number of years is an integral part of the story she tells. Much of Amma s complex cosmology is presented in her own words. The author describes her research methods and growing understanding of her material in terms of a deepening relationship with Amma, to whom she related at different moments as daughter, disciple and researcher. The resulting study is a work of insight and compassion that challenges widely held views of religion and gender in India as it reveals the creativity of a tradition too often portrayed by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as singular and monolithic.

Author : Carla Bellamy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950453
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Powerful Ephemeral written by Carla Bellamy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300960X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the World Becomes Female written by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A carefully crafted ethnography on the South Indian festival of the village goddess Gangamma in the pilgrimage town of Tirupati” (Choice). During the goddess Gangamma’s festival in the town of Tirupati, lower-caste men take guises of the goddess, and the streets are filled with men wearing saris, braids, and female jewelry. By contrast, women participate by intensifying the rituals they perform for Gangamma throughout the year, such as cooking and offering food. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger argues that within the festival ultimate reality is imagined as female and women identify with the goddess, whose power they share. Vivid accounts by male and female participants offer new insights into Gangamma’s traditions and the nature of Hindu village goddesses. “Flueckiger’s rich and colorful descriptions of the stories, festivals, and worshipers connected with the goddess Gangamma evoke a world that previously had been accessible to very few living outside southern India. This work makes available to readers a close-up view of an extremely fascinating aspect of living Hinduism.” —David L. Haberman, Indiana University “Carefully crafted. . . . Through these rituals, stories and lives, the author reveals new ways of comprehending gender both at the cosmological and human level.” —Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University

Author : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143848013X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds written by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes the agency of materiality—the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities—beyond human intentions. Using materials from three regions where Flueckiger conducted extensive fieldwork, she begins with Indian understandings of the agency of ornaments that have the desired effects of protecting women and making them more auspicious. Subsequent chapters bring in examples of materiality that are agentive beyond human intentions, from a south Indian goddess tradition where female guising transforms the aggressive masculinity of men who wear saris, braids, and breasts to the presence of cement images of Ravana in Chhattisgarh, which perform alternative theologies and ideologies to those of dominant textual traditions of the Ramayana epic. Deeply ethnographic and accessibly written, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds expands our understanding of material agency as well as the parameters of religion more broadly. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program at https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8716.

Author : Rowena Robinson
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780195689044
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Conversion in India written by Rowena Robinson and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together original essays by leading scholars of religion, history, and society refelcting upon the idea and practice of conversion in India.

Author : Eleanor Abdella Doumato
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231116671
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting God's Ear written by Eleanor Abdella Doumato and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the role of religious worship and spiritual affairs in women's lives in the twentieth-century Arab world.

Author : Adam Yuet Chau
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804767653
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miraculous Response written by Adam Yuet Chau and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book-length ethnography of the revival of a popular religious temple in contemporary rural China examines the organizational and cultural logics that inform the staging of popular religious activities. It also explores the politics of the religious revival, detailing the relationships of village-level local activists and local state agents wtih temple associations and temple bosses. Shedding light on shifting state-society relationships in the reform era, this book is of interest to scholars and students in Asian Studies, the social sciences, and religious and ritual studies.

Author : Ric Weinman
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504330242
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vortexhealing® Divine Energy Healing written by Ric Weinman and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VortexHealing Divine Energy Healing is a holistic system of energetic healing and a path to awakening, guided by divine intelligence. Without any doubt VortexHealing is the most profound & significant event that I have experienced in this lifetime. Colin Snow, Tai Chi instructor. USA I have experienced every type of healing modality I am sure, all the yogas that you can think of, I have been to see the Dali Lama in Northern India, I have sat for hours in meditation, and have tried many Chinese medicines, but nothing comes even close to the profound and powerful transformational energy that is VortexHealing. Mahala Wall, yoga teacher & healer. England I love VortexHealing. It has transformed my life beyond recognition; I am infinitely blessed to be part of this lineage. Daisy Foss, author & retreat center owner. England In over ten years of intense exploration of a wide variety of amazing personal development tools, VortexHealing is quite simply the most profound and impactful transformational work I have ever encountered. Guy Jara, software engineer. USA VortexHealing transformed my life. After trying many healing modalities, it was the first one that gave me real freedom from childhood traumas and has continued to astound me as to the depth of change it can bring about in my life. Shiraya Adani, healer. South Africa

Author : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405160217
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Hinduism written by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative introductory textbook explores the central practices and beliefs of Hinduism through contemporary, everyday practice. Introduces and contextualizes the rituals, festivals and everyday lived experiences of Hinduism in text and images Includes data from the author’s own extensive ethnographic fieldwork in central India (Chhattisgarh), the Deccan Plateau (Hyderabad), and South India (Tirupati) Features coverage of Hindu diasporas, including a study of the Hindu community in Atlanta, Georgia Each chapter includes case study examples of specific topics related to the practice of Hinduism framed by introductory and contextual material