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1. Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

   Edited by Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson

   The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia,...

   Published July 7th 2011 by Routledge
2. Black and Ethnic Leaderships

   By Pnina Werbner

   Published December 31st 2008 by Routledge
3. Embodying Charisma

   Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults

   Edited by Helene Basu, Pnina Werbner

   The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite...

   Published June 10th 1998 by Routledge