Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey
ISBN: 9780812206357
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Spiritual healing -- Political aspects -- Turkey; Healers -- Legal status laws etc. -- Turkey; Secularism -- Turkey;

Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes.


Christopher Dole is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Amherst College.
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