Table of Contents

List of illustrations, List of contributors, PART 1 Introduction, PART 2 Embodying locality, PART 3 The performance of emotion, PART 4 Charisma and modernity, Name index, Subject index

About the Author

Pnina Werbner is Reader in Social Anthropology at Keele University. She has published on Sufism as a transnational cult and has a growing reputation among Islamic scholars for her work on the political imaginaries of British Islam. Helene Basu teaches Social Anthropology at the Institut für Ethnologie in Berlin. She has studied spirit possession cults and living goddesses in Gujarat, India, and in Sindh.

Reviews

"The book...makes a good case for including Sufism in the construction of theories about charismatic ritual and new religious movements within a regional form of Islam in the process of responding to modernity an d postcoloniality."
-Frank J. Korom, Boston University, "Religious Studies Review