Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Quran in Indonesia
by Anna M. Gade
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Author: Anna M. GadeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04
ISBN: 0824825993
Number of pages: 360
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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...and it will change your understanding of Islam, religion, emotions, and self-cultivation. Clear, engaging, and sophisticated, this study integrates rich ethnography that makes South Suluwesi come alive on the page, with careful theoretical discussions of our words for describing the psyche and education. And it has some great pictures, too.
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