Red Thread Healing Possession by Pfleiderer Beatrix (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788187879633,252pp.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Preface two fables. 1. Introduction. 2. The cunning women. 3. The question the journey and the field. 4. Mira Datar Dargah. 5. The women's stage. 6. The men's stage. 7. The women their psychology and possession. Outlook. Glossary. Bibliography. Groundplan of the Mira Datar tomb. Index. This book is a collection of stories that describe the paths that people chose to heal their lives bodies and relationships. It also describes the accidents on a social physical and emotional level that people experience and which cause the need for healing. The stories were experienced and collected at a Muslim Pilgrimage Center of a Sufi (Suhrawardi) order in Gujarat. The field trips during which this material was collected took place between 1979 and 1982. Financial support came from the German Research Association and the University of Hamburg. For the German version of this book the author was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Price of the German Indo Society in 1996. 252 pp. …