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Becoming Sacred: Humanity and Divinity in East Java, Indonesia (2012)
Book Chapter
Retsikas, K. (2012). Becoming Sacred: Humanity and Divinity in East Java, Indonesia. In M. Marsden, & K. Retsikas (Eds.), Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds (119-138). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4267-3_6

Retsikas’ study focuses on Muslims in East Java, Indonesia and is primarily concerned with the ways in which local Sufi healers have acquired the capacity to heal. This leads him into an investigation of the connections people seek to forge with spir... Read More about Becoming Sacred: Humanity and Divinity in East Java, Indonesia.

Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds (2012)
Book
Marsden, M., & Retsikas, K. (Eds.). (2012). Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4267-3

This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a f... Read More about Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds.