ISBN:
0203450841
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9780203450840
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 316 p.)
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DDC:
128
Keywords:
Pluralism (Social sciences)
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Religion
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Toleration
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PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism
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Cultural pluralism
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Philosophical anthropology
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Religion
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Toleration
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Philosophical anthropology
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Cultural pluralism
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Religion Cross-cultural studies
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Toleration Cross-cultural studies
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Religiöser Pluralismus
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Kulturanthropologie
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Konferenzschrift 1993
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Kulturanthropologie
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Religiöser Pluralismus
Note:
Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Introduction: whatever happened to the Enlightenment? / Wendy James -- Managing tradition: 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees / Janice Boddy -- History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda / Aidan Southall -- Race, culture and- what?: pluralist certainties in the United States / Paul Dresch -- Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India / Lionel Caplan -- Inventing certainties: the dakwah persona in Malaysia / Shamsul A.B. -- Powerful knowledge in a global Sufi cult: reflections on the poetics of travelling theories / Pnina Werbner -- Topophilia, Zionism and 'certainty': making a place out of the space that became Israel again / Robert Paine -- The politics of tolerance: Buddhists and Christians, truth and error in Sri Lanka / Jonathan Spencer -- Changing certainties and the move to a 'global' religion: medical knowledge and Islamization among Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Bénin / Georg Elwert -- Bourdieu and the diviner: knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination / F. Niyi Akinnaso -- Choking on the Quran: and other consuming parables from the western Indian Ocean front / Michael Lambek -- Cultural certainties and private doubts / Roger Just
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