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Arguing Sainthood
Katherine Pratt Ewing
其他書名
Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
出版
Duke University Press
, 1997
主題
History / Middle East / General
Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis
Religion / Islam / General
Religion / Islam / History
Religion / Islam / Sufi
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Physical
Social Science / Islamic Studies
ISBN
9780822320241
082232024X
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IC28fFIn4XkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In
Arguing Sainthood
, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to critically reinterpret theories of subjectivity, Ewing examines the production of identity in the context of a complex social field of conflicting ideologies and interests.
Ewing critiques Eurocentric cultural theorists and Orientalist discourse while also taking issue with expatriate postcolonial thinkers Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak. She challenges the notion of a monolithic Islamic modernity in order to explore the lived realities of individuals, particularly those of Pakistani saints and their followers. By examining the continuities between current Sufi practices and earlier popular practices in the Muslim world, Ewing identifies in the Sufi tradition a reflexive, critical consciousness that has usually been associated with the modern subject. Drawing on her training in clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis as well as her anthropological fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan, Ewing argues for the value of Lacan in anthropology as she provides the basis for retheorizing postcolonial studies.