{"product_id":"the-powerful-ephemeral-everyday-healing-in-an-ambiguously-islamic-place-9788178243467","title":"The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing In an Ambiguously Islamic Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carla Bellamy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003eThe violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003eIn this accessible and groundbreaking ethnography, Carla Bellamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims’ narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, Bellamy considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify\"\u003eGrounded in stories from individual lives and experiences, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Powerful Ephemeral\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e offers not only a humane, highly readable portrait of dargah culture, but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616469213335,"sku":"9788178243467","price":570.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788178243467.webp?v=1769294876","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-powerful-ephemeral-everyday-healing-in-an-ambiguously-islamic-place-9788178243467","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}