Pnina Werbner, Helene Basu
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite bank...
List of figures List of maps List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Introduction: themes in the study of the South Asian diaspora Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec Part I. South Asians in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts: Introduction Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec ...
Pnina Werbner
Part I: The Context of Leadership: Migration, Settlement, and Radical Discrimination Muhammad Anwar Part II: Black and Ethnic Leaderships in Britain: An Overview Pnina Werbner II Community, Party Politics, and the Black Experience Chapter 1: Ethnic Minorities: Voting, Representation, and electoral p...
Pnina Werbner
Abstract This paper argues that the refusal of the Muslim Council of Britain to attend Holocaust Memorial Day highlights a key dimension of memory as political myth: namely, the sense that time is cyclical. Prior external and internal enemies (in their current manifestations) are apocalyptically des...
Clinton Bennett, Charles M. Ramsey
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: South Asian Sufis, Continuity, Complexity and Change, Clinton Bennett 1. Iran's Role in Stimulating South Asian Islam, Clinton Bennett 2. A Model of Sufi Training in the Twenty-First Century: a Case Study of the Qadiriyya in Hyderabad, Mauro Valdin...
Pnina Werbner
Take the N1 Highway out of Dhaka. Drive for an hour or so through the peri-industrial ribbons of garment factories and brick fields until the landscape turns green with padi; cross the vast Meghna and, after another few hours, head through surprising clumps of forest and tea gardens for Sree Mongal,...
Books reviewed: Anthropology of Religion John R. Hinnells, and Roy Porter (eds), Religion, health and suffering Felicia Hughes‐Freeland, and Mary M. Crain (eds, Recasting ritual: performance, media, identity Birgit Meyer, Translating the devil: religion and modernity among the Ewe in Ghana Cecilia P...