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Healing Secular Life : Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey.
Title:
Healing Secular Life : Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey.
Author:
Dole, Christopher.
ISBN:
9780812206357
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Series:
Contemporary Ethnography
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Medicine and the Will to Civilization -- Chapter 2. Healing Difference at the Limits of Community -- Chapter 3. Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of Secular Life -- Chapter 4. The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, Value -- Chapter 5. A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of Relations -- Chapter 6. Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of Loss -- Conclusion: Fragments -- Appendix: Genres of Healing -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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