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lies between Hanover and Hamburg, a few hundred kilometers from Berlin. Since its initiation in 2002, the summer school makes available the teaching and learning of ‘Universal’ Sufism in Europe, a tradition established by the North Indian Chishti Sufi

learnings, inquiring not only about its material manifestations, but more broadly how Elsewhere comes to matter. In “Bridges” we attend to the political dynamics of mobilities and cross-formations involving the Elsewhere. In other words, linking religious

). It was only later that I came to value it as an indispensible way of learning about and understanding what Wittgenstein called forms of life. It was after doing my BLitt at Oxford in 1961 that I signed on to teach five years at the University of

increasing insistence. Despite the delays it caused, however, it was also an important learning process, which, I believe, helped me better understand what was at stake for the Deeper Life Church as an institution, as well as for its individual members. Aside

associations between their practices and certain eminently legitimate touchstones of wisdom in today's China, such as academia, science, modern professionalism, moral doctrines, and notably the “national learning” ( guoxue ¹úѧ) approach, which champions the

the experience of the beyond. To study the Elsewhere, one probably does not need to go that far. Indeed, it might rather come down to an un learning, a suspension of disbelief, a bracketing of one's certitudes about ontological matters, and ultimately

the universe; the taboos reinforce the oppositions that structure the universe and make it rationally comprehensible: animal/human, male/female, young/old, near/far. Respecting the codified distinctions is a method of learning by not doing. If the

Fischer , Michael M. J . 1980 . Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Gade , Anna M . 2004 . Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur'ān in Indonesia . Honolulu

youthful self-fashioning via relations of generosity and dependency. That said, this is richly detailed and an often-startling ethnography with sharp insights and resonance for learning about post-conflict moments and the potential future for settings