Katherine Pratt Ewing: 2 books
Arguing Sainthood
Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1997
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...
Stolen Honor
Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is seen as a potential terrorist, have become...