"The body is a tool for remembrance": healing, transformation, and the instrumentality of the body in a North American Sufi order
This article is a preliminary analysis of the role of the body in core rituals of a North American branch of the Shadhilyya Sufi order. It draws upon fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2020 to consider how spiritual healing practices involve the human body sensorily and in experiential, imaginativ...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Religious body imagined, part II" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
2021
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| In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 96-115 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
North America
/ Shādhilīyah
/ Body
/ Ritual
/ Healing
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBQ North America NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology RC Liturgy |
| Further subjects: | B
Sufi
B Islam B Ritual B Healing B Embodiment B Sufism |
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