Infusions and Fumigations

Literacy Ideologies and Therapeutic Aspects of the Qur'an

Authors

Katharina Wilkens Ludwig Maximillans University, Munich

Keywords:

Sacred texts, embodied religion, senses in religion, reading scriptures, textual consumption, comparative scriptures, cultural and religious values, Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist

Abstract

Katharina Wilkens deploys an analogy with linguistic code-switching to analyze the frequent clashes between semantic-purist and somatic-iconic ideologies over Quranic medicine in Muslim cultures, especially in East Africa. Her argument provides a model for understanding conflicts between scholars and practitioners over book rituals in a wide variety of religious traditions.

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Published

2018-10-05

Issue

Sensing Sacred Texts

Section