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In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India

In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India

Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

Paperback

IslamAnthropologyGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 0253218373
ISBN13: 9780253218377
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Apr 1 2006
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

[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.

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