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
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Learning the Elsewhere of ‘Inner Space’
The Affective Pedagogy of Post-Secular Sufi Healing in Germany
Nasima Selim
Rethinking the Anthropology of Violence for the Twenty-First Century
From Practice to Mediation
Antonius C. G. M. Robben
on culturalism due to their neglect of visual learning, training, and disciplining ( Grasseni 2007 ). Human vision is certainly a historical, social and cultural construct, and sight is generally intertwined with other senses, but when all is said and
Co-constituting Bodyguarding Practice through Embodied Reflexivity
Methodological Reflections from the Field
Paul Higate
with them, in part because they viewed my common British heritage with the instructors as a potentially useful learning resource. I became an informal interlocutor between trainee and instructor; fellow students would often ask me to decode the esoteric
Amanda J. Reinke
( Merry 2016 ). Bureaucracies pervade the globe: fields that once relied on kinetic learning (learning by doing) now require professional training, certificates and degrees, and unpaid internships (see Graeber 2015 ). Ideals, such as the alternative
Assessing Ritual Experience in Contemporary Spiritualities
The Practice of ‘sharing’ in a New Age Variant of Umbanda
Viola Teisenhoffer
transmission and learning of ritual procedures and cosmological knowledge, the power relationships and issues of authority that they imply, and the reproduction of the group through discipleship. However, it is not so much because they may eventually deepen and
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The Social Life of Contentious Concepts
Ronald S. Stade
, however, social immersion and learning a language are necessary to understand the meanings of concepts and to realize that the meaning of key concepts tends to be contested and how concepts are instrumentalized in political conflicts. Different people
The Religious Foundations of Capoeira Angola
The Cosmopolitics of an Apparently Non-religious Practice
Sergio González Varela
groups shared during my fieldwork was the lengthy and ascetic process that individuals must experience in order to become mestres . This method, which involves many years of training and learning, hinders the possibility of standardized rituals with
Erick White
within traditional forms of artistic and esoteric learning. Thailand is also home to possession as a Buddhist vocation of professionalized oracles. This modality of possession involves extended, intimate submission to high-status, morally virtuous deities
Portrait
Ann Grodzins Gold
Ann Grodzins Gold, Bhrigupati Singh, Farhana Ibrahim, Edward Simpson, and Kirin Narayan
, and I revisited this incident in my memory more than once. I came to realize that even seasoned scholars might travel to India repeatedly—learning from the educated elite or working in the archives—and remain not only removed from the kinds of human
Along the Lines of the Occupation
Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem
Fabio Cristiano and Emilio Distretti
and wadis of Palestine describes a process of memory cultivation and learning about Palestinian history despite the encroaching transformations (checkpoints, settlements, fences) produced by Israeli colonization. As much as walking connects people to