How Long to Read Healing Secular Life

How Long Does it Take to Read Healing Secular Life?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 4 minutes to read Healing Secular Life by Christopher Dole

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In contemporary Turkey—a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation—the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstitious relics of a pre-modern era. Yet all sorts of people, and not just the desperately ill, continue to seek them out. After years of research with healers and their patients in working-class neighborhoods of urban Turkey, anthropologist Christopher Dole concludes that the religious healer should be regarded not as an exception to Turkey's secular modern development but as one of its defining figures. Healing Secular Life demonstrates that religious healing and secularism in fact have a set of common stakes in the ordering of lives and the remaking of worlds. Linking the history of medical reforms and scientific literacy campaigns to contemporary efforts of Qur'anic healers to treat people afflicted by spirits and living saints through whom deceased political leaders speak, Healing Secular Life approaches stories of healing and being healed as settings for examining the everyday social intimacies of secular political rule. This ethnography of loss, care, and politics reveals not only that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within the history of secular modern reform in Turkey but also that personal narratives of suffering and affliction are inseparable from the story of a nation seeking to recover from the violence of its own secular past.

How long is Healing Secular Life?

Healing Secular Life by Christopher Dole is 302 pages long, and a total of 76,104 words.

This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Healing Secular Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 55 minutes to read Healing Secular Life aloud.

What Reading Level is Healing Secular Life?

Healing Secular Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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