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Author Dole, Christopher

Title Healing secular life : loss and devotion in modern Turkey / Christopher Dole
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Contemporary ethnography
Contemporary ethnography.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Medicine and the Will to Civilization -- Chapter 2. Healing Difference at the Limits of Community -- Chapter 3. Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of Secular Life -- Chapter 4. The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, Value -- Chapter 5. A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of Relations -- Chapter 6. Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of Loss -- Conclusion: Fragments -- Appendix: Genres of Healing -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes
Analysis Anthropology
Folklore
Linguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Spiritual healing -- Political aspects -- Turkey
Healers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Turkey
Secularism -- Turkey
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Healers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Secularism
Turkey
Genre/Form Ethnography
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012008451
ISBN 9780812206357
0812206355