Breathing hearts - Nasima Selim

Breathing hearts

sufism, healing, and anti-Muslim racism in Germany

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Buch | Hardcover
268 Seiten
2024 | 1. Auflage
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-198-2 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.

Nasima Selim is a Postdoctoral Research Associate of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Nasima's work intersects medical anthropology, global health, public anthropology, and anthropology of Islam across Western Europe and South Asia. She is a breathworker, educator, researcher, and writer.

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Introduction: “A Sufi is Someone Who Breathes Well” The Ways of the Breathing Hearts



Chapter 1. The Unseen Neighbors and a Dual Apprentice: Silsila, or Drawing the Lines of Transmitting Breath

Chapter 2. “Why Do I Suffer and What Should I Do?” The Desire Lines of Sufi Breathing-Becoming

Chapter 3. Techniques of Transformation: Subtle-Material Bodies in Dhikr and other (Breathing) Practices

Chapter 4. “There Must be Something Else” The In-between World of Healing Secular and Religious Suffering

Chapter 5. Participation in the Real: The Healing Power of Breath, Words, and Things

Chapter 6.  “The Right-Wing Attacks Our Mosques and Our Muslim Brothers Do Not Consider Us to Be Real Muslims!” the (Anti-)Politics of Breathing Hearts



Conclusion: Lessons from the Breathing Wayfaring Hearts



Epilogue: Sufi Breathing in the Pandemic Ruins of (Anti-Muslim) Racism



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Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Epistemologies of Healing
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80539-198-4 / 1805391984
ISBN-13 978-1-80539-198-2 / 9781805391982
Zustand Neuware
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