In Amma's Healing Room
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
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Description for In Amma's Healing Room
Paperback. Ethnographic study of a charismatic Muslim woman healer whose practice crosses gender and religious boundaries Num Pages: 22 b&w photos, 1 figures, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
"[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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253218377
SKU
V9780253218377
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About Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion at Emory University and author of Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India.
Reviews for In Amma's Healing Room
. . . [H]er book, like all ethnographies, should also be read between the lines—Flueckiger was concerned that by publishing her material she would bring public attention to forms of Islam criticized by other Muslims; she also analyses very sensitive dimensions of Amma's role as a healer—notably the part she plays in Hindu-Muslim conversion processes. All in all, In Amma's ... Read more