Del 111 i serien Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

Politics of Worship in the Contemporary Middle East

Sainthood in Fragile States

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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In Sainthood in Fragile States, a wide range of social scientists explore the contested role of sainthood in the contemporary Middle East. By expanding the notion of sainthood to cover both the religious and secular ways of dealing with extraordinary events, people and things, the volume offers new insights into the way sainthood is embedded in various levels of everyday life, as well as national and international politics. The case studies highlight how fragility as a central aspect of sainthood is a productive force that often consolidates tales of the extraordinary, and is also the source of contesting social identities.Contributors include: Andreas Bandak, Mikkel Bille, Jürgen Frembgen, Sune Haugbolle, Angie Heo, Daniella Kuzmanovic, Edith Szanto, and Pnina Werbner.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-03-22
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSocial, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
Antal sidor216
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004247826

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Andreas Bandak is an anthropologist and PhD Fellow at University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the Christian minorities in Syria. He has co-edited a special issue of Ethnos entitled Foregrounds and Backgrounds: Ventures in the Anthropology of Christianity (2012).Mikkel Bille holds a PhD in anthropology from UCL (2009) and is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has co-edited An Anthropology of Absence (2010), and co-authored Materialitet. En indføring i kultur, identitet og teknologi (2012) in Danish.

AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Sainthood in fragile states - Andreas Bandak and Mikkel BillePart I - Sustained SainthoodContesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous healing among Twelver Shi‘is in contemporary Syria - Edith SzantoSaints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic cults of Egyptian revolution from Alexandria to Maspero - Angie Heo Part II: Contested RepresentationsEnigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating media conspiracies in an Age of Terror - Pnina WerbnerThe Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin heritage in Jordan - Mikkel BillePart III: Indeterminate SainthoodOur Lady of Soufanieh: On knowledge, ignorance and indifference among the Christians of Damascus - Andreas BandakEcstatic Sainthood and austere Sunni Islam: A majzūb in northern Pakistan - Juergen FrembgenPart IV: Secular SainthoodImbued with Agency: Contesting notions of the extraordinaryness of Türkan Saylan - Daniella KuzmanovicThe Secular Saint: Iconography and ideology in the cult of Bashir Jumayil - Sune Haugbolle