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Queer Companions
- Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan
Engelsk Paperback

Queer Companions

- Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478018032
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478018038
Udg. Dato:
13 maj 2022
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
13 maj 2022
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