In Amma's Healing Room

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025311201X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Book Synopsis In Amma's Healing Room by : Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

Download or read book In Amma's Healing Room written by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[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 In 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.

Saints on Earth

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Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (949 download)

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Book Synopsis Saints on Earth by : Caroline Mathew

Download or read book Saints on Earth written by Caroline Mathew and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever visited the Andaman and Nicobar Islands? This book will take you on a visual voyage to the Emerald Green Islands! The story revolves around ordinary people who perform simple tasks with great love and display exemplary courage in times of peril. Unwavering in their values, they are the true saints of this earth. The protagonist of this memoir is Abba, a village boy from remote South India, raised by his parents amidst life's adversities. In 1956, at the age of 20, destiny leads him to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The narrative follows Abba and his wife through their daily struggles, the hardships they face as parents, their illnesses, internal setbacks, and the challenges of building a home, all the while upholding their moral values and cultural traditions. Beyond their family life, the book delves into history, recounting the horrors of British rule and the brutal massacres by the Japanese on the islands. It also highlights the mesmerizing beauty of the islands, the prehistoric life of the aborigines, and the transformation of the islands into a melting pot of Indian culture, now known as "Mini India." Prepare to embark on a captivating tour of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Reframing My Worth

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Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1038314631
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)

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Book Synopsis Reframing My Worth by : Habiba Zaman

Download or read book Reframing My Worth written by Habiba Zaman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, I share my personal memories and lived experiences of growing up in Bangladesh and my Canadian journey. It is neither an autobiography nor a chronological account of life, rather I focus on selected themes and stories through critical self-reflection within the gendered social, cultural and historical contexts. The stories as they unfold may take the readers on an emotional journey with feelings and events of their own. Reframing My Worth is a story about forging our own path in life and never letting the challenges along the way keep us from achieving our dreams. This book may be of interest to those studying gendered socialization, migration, and women’s rights in cross-national perspectives.

Lines in Water

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652259
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Book Synopsis Lines in Water by : Eliza F. Kent

Download or read book Lines in Water written by Eliza F. Kent and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When asked to distinguish between different faiths, Mughal prince Dara Shikoh is said to have replied, “How do you draw a line in water?” Inspired by this question, the essays in this volume illustrate how ordinary people in South Asia and the diaspora negotiate their religious identities and encounters in creative, complex, and diverse ways. Taking the approach that narratives “from below” provide the richest insight into the dynamics of religious pluralism, the authors examine life histories, oral traditions, cartographic practices, pilgrimage rites, and devotional music and songs. Drawing on both ethnographic and historical data, they illuminate how, like lines in water, religious boundaries are dynamic, fluid, flexible, and permeable rather than permanently fixed, frozen, and inviolable. A distinct feature of the volume is its proposition of a fresh and innovative typology of boundary dynamics. Boundaries may be attractive or porous, firmly drawn or transcended. Attractive boundaries invite confluence while affirming the differences between self and other, whereas permeable boundaries facilitate exchanges that create new identities and in turn form new lines. Although people may recognize the significance of religious borders, they can choose to transcend them. Throughout this volume, the authors highlight the fascinating range of South Asian religious and cultural traditions.

A Life in Words

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759401
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis A Life in Words by : Ismat Chugtai

Download or read book A Life in Words written by Ismat Chugtai and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtais celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Alongside vivid descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century. Chughtai is searingly honest about her fight to get an education and the struggle to find her own voice as a writer. The result is a compellingly readable memoir by one of the most significant Urdu writers of all time.

Penguins and Golden Calves

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Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1524759155
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis Penguins and Golden Calves by : Madeleine L'Engle

Download or read book Penguins and Golden Calves written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite protests and warnings from friends and family, author Madeleine L’Engle, at the age of seventy-four, embarked on a rafting trip to Antarctica. Her journey through the startling beauty of the continent led her to write Penguins and Golden Calves, a captivating discussion of how opening oneself up to icons, or everyday “windows to God,” leads to the development of a rich and deeply spiritual faith. Here, L’Engle explains how ordinary things such as family, words, the Bible, heaven, and even penguins can become such windows. She also shows how such a window becomes an idol–a penguin becomes a “golden calf”–when we see it as a reflection of itself instead of God. With delightful language, insightful metaphor, and personal stories, L’Engle brings readers to a deeper understanding of themselves, their faith, and the presence of God in their daily lives.

Beyond The Fields

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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814841633
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (148 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond The Fields by : Aysha Baqir

Download or read book Beyond The Fields written by Aysha Baqir and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to a poor, landless farmer in the month of the monsoon rains, twins Zara and Tara grow up amongst the fields of wheat and cotton in a remote village in Pakistan. During an afternoon spree of games, Tara is kidnapped from the fields and raped. All seems to be resolved after her parents accept an unexpected marriage proposal for their “dishonoured” daughter. But the nightmare resurfaces when a newspaper clipping emerges, calling the union into question. Determined to rescue her twin, Zara embarks on a harrowing quest for justice, battling keepers of a culture that upholds propriety above all else and braving the unknown dangers of an urban centre. Set in the early 1980s against the backdrop of martial law and social turmoil, Beyond the Fields is a riveting, timely look at profound inequality, traditions that disempower women in our world, and survival as a dance to the beat of a different future.

The Migrants

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Publisher : One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9352010388
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis The Migrants by : SALMA A SIDDIQUI

Download or read book The Migrants written by SALMA A SIDDIQUI and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in the first person, this honest, deeply moving and searingly self-critical account of the life of first generation Pakistani migrants in England is imbedded in the kaleidoscopic memories of a generation haunted by the tragic events of history. Burdened by their own secrets, it is the tale of a family in pursuit of hope and happiness in a new world. The narrative lays bare the heart of family life and the cosmos of first generation migrants, as they struggle to find a toehold in an utterly foreign country. Plucked from the warmth of Rawalpindi, transported to a cold foggy London winter, surround by the invisible barriers created by her culture, Salmi’s life becomes confined to the four walls of her family’s two-bed flat in Stockwell. While Abbu and Ammi wish their children to succeed in Western society, they also strive to maintain the heritage and religion they cherish. Enthralled by the allure of the world that lies beyond her family home, Salmi is required to navigate the slippery path between the strict traditions she has inherited and the baffling modern life she encounters every day as she grows up. Battling the yearnings of her family ‘in exile’ as well as her own emotional confusion, Salmi gradually transcends the strict traditions she has inherited. Today, she knows she has triumphed against all odds…but at what cost?

The Way of Spiritual Direction

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Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814654477
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (544 download)

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Book Synopsis The Way of Spiritual Direction by : Francis Kelly Nemeck

Download or read book The Way of Spiritual Direction written by Francis Kelly Nemeck and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may well become a classic in this important area of spirituality. It is the reader's opinion that if you read only one book on this subject this year, The Way of Spiritual Direction should be the one." John G. Durbin, STL.

Segments and Challenges

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Book Synopsis Segments and Challenges by : Jahed Rahman

Download or read book Segments and Challenges written by Jahed Rahman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme that premised the essence of the book is that in life’s journey, there are plethora of fragmentations mostly causing frustration and dismay, but some of those create also opportunities for a new start, wiping out initial distresses. That typically depends on alertness and commitment of the incumbent to respond and silhouette the new opportunities. The book is thus titled as Segments and Challenges. It epitomizes the entire life of Javed, the principal character of the story, making progression in life in the midst of frequent fragmented turn of his journey but still making significant strides in life even though burdened by social and traditional impositions. Diametrically opposite to Javed’s sober and steady approach to life was his high school headmaster, Mr. Hamid Ullah, a brilliant student of his time of the Bangladesh prime university who however lacked balance between emotions and reality. In that journey process and at that phase of life, he, notwithstanding brilliance and capacity otherwise, finally ended up by choice as a teacher of a community high school in a remote area. He was successful in making that school a prominent one, but that was nothing compared to his intellect and ability. Contrarily, a half-educated but wise and pragmatic rural lady, Tahera Khala, made a major mark in shaping Javed’s progression, whereas a smart and outgoing very rich metropolitan housewife, Lady Khadija, lost everything due to a mismatch between pursuing social fame and standing with the concept open family and liberal attitude. Javed’s real exposure to affluence and high-stake living was when, being requested by one of his academic well-wishers, started tutoring the only daughter of Lady Khadija. Here he fell victim to sudden indulgence of life without plan or premonition, the probable outcome of which haunted him all through life. Being unbound by the victim of the first but unintended incident, he pursued his life’s journey with the only daughter he had in a regular married life. The intriguing climax of that saga culminating the end starts there.

Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791476345
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (763 download)

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Book Synopsis Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions by : Corinne G. Dempsey

Download or read book Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions written by Corinne G. Dempsey and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism, making and breaking religious careers and movements in their wake. Drawing on a variety of South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity-this book revolves around the theme of conundrum, demonstrating how miracles offer divine proof, tenacious embarrassment, and, in many cases, both. The contributors explore not only how modern miracles are conundrums themselves but also how they make conundrums out of assumed divides between scientific and supernatural realms, modernity and tradition, the West and the rest, and ethnographer and native. Book jacket.

Fragments for Fractured Times

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Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334059089
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Fragments for Fractured Times by : Nicola Slee

Download or read book Fragments for Fractured Times written by Nicola Slee and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ever a period of time felt ‘fractured’ it is now. Whichever way we turn, we witness the dismembering and fracturing of many previously taken for granted realities, with maps and borders – physical and metaphorical – being redrawn before our eyes. What place for the feminist practical theologian in such a climate? “In Fragments for Fractured Times”, one of the world’s leading feminist practical theologians, Nicola Slee, brings together 15 years of papers, articles, talks and sermons, many of them previously unpublished. Collected from diverse times, places, settings and occasions, Slee offers an introduction to each fragment, “holding it up to the light and examining its size, shape, texture and pattern”. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of her writing, Slee demonstrates the richness and variety of feminist practical theological writing. What feminist theology brings to the table of scholarly thinking and embodied practice is, she suggests, something creative, artful, prophetic as well as playful – a resource for Christian living and thinking in fractured times.

Queer Companions

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478022655
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Queer Companions by : Omar Kasmani

Download or read book Queer Companions written by Omar Kasmani and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place’s patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state’s infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making with saints.

Hospital

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Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922725803
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Hospital by : Sanya Rushdi

Download or read book Hospital written by Sanya Rushdi and published by Giramondo Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a medical model which seems less than convincing to her. Indeed questioning seems to be at the heart of her psychosis, in her over-active interpretations of signs and gestures, thoughts and emotions – and one understands these to be an expression of her intelligence, even if they seem illusory. She tells her story in a calm, rational voice, with an acute sense of detail and an objective air, as she wonders when the next psychotic episode will materialise, or if it hasn’t arrived already. Based on real-life events, translated from Bengali by the award-winning Indian translator Arunava Sinha, Hospital is an extraordinary novel that portrays the experience of psychosis and its treatments in an unflinching and understated way, while struggling more broadly with the definition of sanity in our society.

Educating People of Faith

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802849366
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Book Synopsis Educating People of Faith by : John H. Van Engen

Download or read book Educating People of Faith written by John H. Van Engen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed addition to the emerging literature on the formative power of religious practices, "Educating People of Faith" creates a vivid portrait of the lived practices that shaped the faith of Jews and Christians in synagogues and churches from antiquity up to the seventeenth century. This significant book is the work of Jewish, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant scholars who wished to discover and describe how Jews and Christians through history have been formed in religious ways of thinking and acting. Rather than focusing solely on either intellectual or social life, the authors all use the concept of practices as they attend to the embodied, contextual character of religious formation. Their studies of religious figures, community life, and traditional practices such as preaching, sacraments, and catechesis are colorful, detailed, and revealing. The authors are also careful to cover the nature of religious education across all social levels, from the textual formation of highly literate rabbis and monks engaged in Scripture study to the local formation of illiterate medieval Christians for whom the veneration of saints' shrines, street performances of religious dramas, and public preaching by wandering preachers were profoundly formative. "Educating People of Faith" will benefit scholars and teachers desiring a fuller perspective on how lived practices have historically formed people in religious faith. It will also be useful to practical theologians and pastors who wish to make the resources of the past available to practitioners in the present. Contributors: John C. Cavadini Anne L. Clark Lawrence S. Cunningham Joseph Goering RobertGoldenberg Stanley Samuel Harakas Robert M. Kingdon Blake Leyerle Michael A. Signer Philip M. Soergel David C. Steinmetz John Van Engen Lee Palmer Wandel Robert Louis Wilken Elliot R. Wolfson

The Rock That Is Higher

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Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 152475935X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rock That Is Higher by : Madeleine L'Engle

Download or read book The Rock That Is Higher written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes… –Madeleine L’Engle, from The Rock That Is Higher Story captures our hearts and feeds our imaginations. It reminds us who we are and where we came from. Story gives meaning and direction to our lives as we learn to see it as an affirmation of God’s love and truth–an acknowledgment of our longing for a rock in the midst of life’s wilderness. Drawing upon her own experiences, well-known tales in literature, and selected narratives from Scripture, Madeleine L’Engle gently leads the way into the glorious world of story in The Rock That Is Higher. Here she acknowledges universal human longings and considers how literature, Scripture, personal stories, and life experiences all point us toward our true home.

India Partitioned

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Publisher : sachin kumar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book India Partitioned written by Mushirul Hasan and published by sachin kumar. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume edition draws upon short stories, poems, and satirical pieces to represent the voices of anguish and the sense of betrayal at the freedom gained.