Healing Secular LifeIn contemporary Turkeya democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nationthe 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