Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey
(Part of the Contemporary Ethnography Series)
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In contemporary Turkey--a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation--the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstitious relics of a pre-modern era. Yet all sorts of people, and not just the desperately ill, continue to seek them out. After years of research with...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812244168
ISBN13:9780812244168
Release Date:September 2012
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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