Inspect Embodying Charisma: Rendered By Pnina Werbner File Paper Edition

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 banks and skyscrapers.

This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations and breaks new ground in current research.
It addresses the most recent debates on the encounter between Islam and modernity and presents important new comparative ethnographic material,
Embodying Charisma reexamines some basic concepts in the sociology and anthropology of religion and the organization of religious movements, Pnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Keele University, and author of The Manchester Migration Trilogy, including The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis Berg Publishers,,, Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslimsand Pilgrims of Love: the Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult.
Inshe edited Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives Bloomsbury Academic,, and is the editor of several theoretical collections on hybridity, multiculturalism, migration, and citizenship.
She has researched in Britain, Pakistan, and Botswana, and has directed major research projects on the Muslim South Asian, Filipino, and Af Pnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Keele

University, and author of The Manchester Migration Trilogy, including The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis Berg Publishers,,, Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslimsand Pilgrims of Love: the Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult.
Inshe edited Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives Bloomsbury Academic,, and is the editor of several theoretical collections on hybridity, multiculturalism, migration, and citizenship.
She has researched in Britain, Pakistan, and Botswana, and has directed major research projects on the Muslim South Asian, Filipino, and African diasporas.
Her forthcoming book is The Making of an African Working Class: Law, Politics and Cultural Protest Pluto,, sitelink.