Author: William Gwee
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814435511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: William Gwee Thian Hock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789814832229
Category : Communities
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Author: Thian Hock Gwee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789814382229
Category : Singapore
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Author: William Gwee
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 981443552X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: William L. Gibson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040118135
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Keramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore’s history as a multi‐ethnic maritime trading center. They offered sanctified spaces not only for Muslims but also for the entire community in which they emerged. Maintained by self‐appointed caretakers, the stories of keramat often interweave fact with folklore that mirror the history and sensibilities of the community. While once an abundant part of the social landscape of Singapore, many keramat were destroyed during the post‐independence rush to develop. These keramat now face a second vanishing with memories of them fading as caretakers and community members age and pass away. In parallel, many modern Muslims consider keramat as a form of shirk, or polytheism, and tacitly consent to their destruction. This book concludes by critically examining the often‐tense relationship between keramat and authority, both secular and religious, from colonial to modern times. The dilemmas of grappling with puritanical norms and grassroots elaborations in varying modes of preservation are investigated using case studies from Singapore and the wider region. A vital resource for scholars, this work contributes to a people’s history of Singapore, one that both deepens and problematizes official historical accounts.

Author: David Fenster
Publisher: Meher Nazar Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Mehera-Meher is the story of an intimate, Divine Romance between the Beloved and his closest disciple. The three-volume paperback set draws deeply from Mehera's firsthand narrative gathered from over 200 hours of tape recordings made by the author, David Fenster, from the years 1974 to 1982. To this he painstakingly researched and added other historical material from Mehera and those close to her to create an epic, 1785-page biography of Avatar Meher Baba's foremost woman disciple. This is the latest, revised edition, and contains numerous corrections and additions to previous editions.

Author: Ronald L. Barrett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520941012
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.

Author: Aria Minu-Sepehr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451652194
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Biography & autobiography.

Author: Bhau Kalchuri
Publisher: Meher Nazar Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1278

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The biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba updated as of 22 October 2024

Author: Ritu Jain
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000386929
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore’s rich linguistic diversity. Applying a combination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the authors investigate not only official languages such as English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, but also minority languages such as the Chinese vernaculars and South Asian and Austronesian languages. The chapters in this volume trace the historical development, contemporary status, and functions of these languages, as well as potential scenarios for the future. Exploring the tension between language policies and linguistic realities in Singapore, the contributions in this volume capture the shifting educational, political, and societal priorities of the community through its past and contemporary present.