ISBN:
9781845454098
,
184545409X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 286 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version On the Margins of Religion
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Religion and sociology
;
Anthropology of religion
Abstract:
Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives, and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalization of the twenty-first century
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page-On the margins of religion; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Ch 1-On the margins: an introduction; Part I-Anthropology and religion; Ch 2-Homeless spirits; Ch 3-The abominations of anthropology; Part II-Space and religious marginality; Ch 4-Religious logistics; Ch 5-Contested spaces; Ch 6-Bosnian neighbourhoods revisited; Part III-Power and relative centrality; Ch 7-Revival of Buddhist royal family commemorative ritual in Laos; Ch 8-Centres and margins; Part IV-Religious options and identitary claims; Ch 9-Alliens and subordinates; Ch 10-On celibate marriages
Description / Table of Contents:
Part V-modernity and the transmission of religionCh 11-Elder's cathedrals and children's marbles; Ch 12-Geomancy, politics and colonial encounters in Rural Hong Kong; Ch 13-The sacrifices of modernity in a Soviet-built steel town in central India; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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