{"product_id":"in-ammas-healing-room-gender-and-vernacular-islam-in-south-india-9780253218377","title":"In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives. . . . No other book on South Asia has material like this.\" --Ann Grodzins Gold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual healer in Hyderabad, South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma's practice as a form of vernacular Islam arising in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity are fluid. In the \"healing room,\" Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men and women, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian, of varied social backgrounds, who bring a wide range of physical, social, and psychological afflictions. Flueckiger collaborated closely with Amma and relates to her at different moments as daughter, disciple, and researcher. The result is a work of insight and compassion that challenges widely held views of religion and gender in India and reveals the creativity of a tradition often portrayed by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as singular and monolithic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press (Ips)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613235462295,"sku":"9780253218377","price":2989.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780253218377.webp?v=1775083633","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/in-ammas-healing-room-gender-and-vernacular-islam-in-south-india-9780253218377","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}