Queer companions : religion, public intimacy, and saintly affects in Pakistan

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    • Kasmani, Omar

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Queer companions : religion, public intimacy, and saintly affects in Pakistan

Omar Kasmani

Duke University Press, 2022

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-200) and index

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内容説明

In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place's patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state's infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making with saints.

目次

Note on Orthography ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. On Coming Close 1 1. Infrastructures of the Imaginal 36 2. Her Stories in His Durbar 60 3. In Other Guises, Other Futures 84 4. Love in a Time of Celibacy 107 5. Worlding Fakirs, Fairies and the Dead 130 Coda. Queer Forward Slash Religion 152 Notes 165 Glossary 181 References 185 Index 201

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