1 option
Healing secular life : loss and devotion in modern Turkey / Christopher Dole.
LIBRA HN656.5.Z9 .D65 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dole, Christopher.
- Series:
- Contemporary ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritual healing--Political aspects--Turkey.
- Spiritual healing.
- Healers--Legal status, laws, etc--Turkey.
- Healers.
- Secularism--Turkey.
- Secularism.
- Healers--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Medicine and the Will to Civilization 31
- Chapter 2 Healing Difference at the Limits of Community 58
- Chapter 3 Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of Secular Life 92
- Chapter 4 The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, Value 129
- Chapter 5 A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of Relations 160
- Chapter 6 Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of Loss 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812244168
- 0812244168
- OCLC:
- 780415675
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.