Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey

by Christopher Dole

In contemporary Turkey--a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation--the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstitious relics of a pre-modern era. Yet all sorts of people, and not just the desperately ill, continue to seek them out. After years of research with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244168
• ISBN13: 9780812244168
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"