A companion to the anthropology of religion

A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Presents a...

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其他作者: Boddy, Janice (Other) ; Lambek, Michael (Other)
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語言:English
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出版: Chichester, West Sussex, UK Wiley-Blackwell 2013
In:Year: 2013
叢編:Blackwell companions to anthropology
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 人類學 / 宗教
B Religionsanthropologie
Further subjects:B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
B Aufsatzsammlung
B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
B POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
B Electronic books
B Anthropology of religion
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總結:A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays exploring the wide variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary worldExplores a broad range of topics including the 'perspectivism' debate, the rise of religious nationalism, reflections on religion and new medi
Worlds and Intersections. Presence, Attachment, Origin: Ontologies of "Incarnates" / Philippe Descola -- The Dynamic Reproduction of Hunter-Gatherers' Ontologies and Values / Sylvie Poirier -- Cohabiting an Interreligious Milieu: Reflections on Religious Diversity / Veena Das -- Religious and Legal Particularism and Universality / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- Epistemologies. Are Ancestors Dead? / Rita Astuti, Maurice Bloch -- Coping with Religious Diversity: Incommensurability and Other Perspectives / Eva Spies -- Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion / Michael Lambek -- Religion and the Truth of Being / Paul Stoller -- Time and Ethics. Ethics / James Laidlaw -- The Social and Political Theory of the Soul / Heonik Kwon -- Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West / Fenella Cannell -- The Work of Memory: Ritual Laments of the Dead and Korea's Cheju Massacre / Seong-nae Kim -- The Globalization of Pentecostalism and the Limits of Globalization / Girish Daswani -- Practices and Mediations. Food, Life, and Material Religion in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity / Tom Boylston -- Trading with God: Islam, Calculation, Excess / Amira Mittermaier -- Ritual Remains: Studying Contemporary Pilgrimage / Simon Coleman -- Mediation and Immediacy: Sensational Forms, Semiotic Ideologies, and the Question of the Medium / Birgit Meyer -- Languages and Conversions. Translating God's Words / Wendy James -- Christianity as a Polemical Concept / Pamela E Klassen -- Reconfiguring Humanity in Amazonia: Christianity and Change / Aparecida Vilaça -- Language in Christian Conversion / William F Hanks -- Persons and Histories. Canonizing Soviet Pasts in Contemporary Russia: The Case of Saint Matrona of Moscow / Jeanne Kormina -- Reflections on Death, Religion, Identity, and the Anthropology of Religion / Ellen Badone -- Spirits and Selves Revisited: and Islam in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy -- Powers. The Political Landscape of Early State Religions / Edward Swenson -- A Syariah Judiciary as a Global Assemblage: Islamization and Beyond in a Southeast Asian Context / Michael G Peletz -- The Catholicization of Neoliberalism / Andrea Muehlebach -- The Sacred and the City: Modernity, Religion, and the Urban Form in Central Africa / Filip De Boeck.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:047067332X
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1002/9781118605936