ISBN:
047067332X
,
1118606094
,
1118605896
,
1118606019
,
1118605934
,
9781118606094
,
9781118606018
,
9781118605936
,
9781118605899
,
9780470673324
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Companion to the anthropology of religion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A companion to the anthropology of religion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A companion to the anthropology of religion
Keywords:
Anthropology of religion
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Anthropology of religion
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Anthropologie
;
Religion
;
Anthropologie
;
Religion
;
Religionsanthropologie
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Worlds and Intersections. Presence, Attachment, Origin: Ontologies of "Incarnates" / Philippe DescolaThe 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1002/9781118605936
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118605936
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