Politics of Worship in the Contemporary Middle East

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

Approx. 280 pp. and 13 illus.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Andreas Bandak is an anthropologist and PhD Fellow at University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the Christian minorities in Syria. He has co-edited a special issue of Ethnos entitled Foregrounds and Backgrounds: Ventures in the Anthropology of Christianity (2012).

Mikkel Bille holds a PhD in anthropology from UCL (2009) and is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has co-edited An Anthropology of Absence (2010), and co-authored Materialitet. En indføring i kultur, identitet og teknologi (2012) in Danish.

Readership

Students and scholars interested in the intersections of politics, piety, and power in the contemporary Middle East, and scholars of religion, anthropologists, and sociologists working on sainthood.

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction: Sainthood in fragile states - Andreas Bandak and Mikkel Bille

Part I - Sustained Sainthood
Contesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous healing among Twelver Shi‘is in contemporary Syria - Edith Szanto
Saints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic cults of Egyptian revolution from Alexandria to Maspero - Angie Heo

Part II: Contested Representations
Enigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating media conspiracies in an Age of Terror - Pnina Werbner
The Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin heritage in Jordan - Mikkel Bille

Part III: Indeterminate Sainthood
Our Lady of Soufanieh: On knowledge, ignorance and indifference among the Christians of Damascus - Andreas Bandak
Ecstatic Sainthood and austere Sunni Islam: A majzūb in northern Pakistan - Juergen Frembgen

Part IV: Secular Sainthood
Imbued with Agency: Contesting notions of the extraordinaryness of Türkan Saylan - Daniella Kuzmanovic
The Secular Saint: Iconography and ideology in the cult of Bashir Jumayil - Sune Haugbolle

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