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  • 1
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    The Other Saudis : Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107043046 , 9781107337732 , 9781107618237
    Language: English
    Pages: 292 p.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East Studies no. 46
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 46
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    DDC: 305.6/978209538
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    Keywords: Shiites Political activity ; History ; Islam and politics History ; Dissenters History ; Sects Political aspects ; History ; Sunnites Relations ; Shīʻah ; Shīʻah Relations ; Sunnites ; Shīʻah ; Relations ; Sunnites ; Sunnites ; Relations ; Shīʻah ; Shiites ; Political activity ; Saudi Arabia ; Sharqīyah (Province) ; History ; Islam and politics ; Saudi Arabia ; Sharqīyah (Province) ; History ; Dissenters ; Saudi Arabia ; Sharqīyah (Province) ; History ; Sects ; Political aspects ; Saudi Arabia ; Sharqīyah (Province) ; History ; Sharqīyah (Saudi Arabia : Province) ; Politics and government ; Sharqīyah (Saudi Arabia : Province) ; Religion ; Sharqīyah (Saudi Arabia : Province) Politics and government ; Sharqīyah (Saudi Arabia : Province) Religion
    Abstract: Toby Matthiesen traces the politics of the Shia in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from the nineteenth century until the present day. This book outlines the difficult experiences of being Shia in a Wahhabi state, and casts new light on how the Shia have mobilised politically to change their position. Shia petitioned the rulers, joined secular opposition parties and founded Islamist movements. Most Saudi Shia opposition activists profited from an amnesty in 1993 and subsequently found a place in civil society and the public sphere. However, since 2011 a new Shia protest movement has again challenged the state. The Other Saudis shows how exclusionary state practices created an internal Other and how sectarian discrimination has strengthened Shia communal identities. The book is based on little-known Arabic sources, extensive fieldwork in Saudi Arabia and interviews with key activists. Of immense geopolitical importance, the oil-rich Eastern Province is a crucial but little known factor in regional politics and Gulf security
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Politics of notables -- 2. Oil and dissent -- 3. Shia Islamism -- 4. A decade of confrontation -- 5. Marginal recognition -- 6. Arab uprisings -- Conclusion
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107337732
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  • 2
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    Religion in a Liberal State (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107042032 , 9781107323674 , 9781107650077
    Language: English
    Pages: 272 p.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Religion in a liberal state
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Religion and law ; Secularism Social aspects ; Liberalism Religious aspects ; Religion and law ; Religion and law ; Secularism ; Social aspects ; Liberalism ; Religious aspects ; Religion and law ; Great Britain ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Staat ; Liberalismus ; Säkularisation
    Abstract: As religion has become more visible in public life, with closer relations of co-operation with government as well as a force in some political campaigns, its place in public life has become more contested. Fudged compromises of the past are giving way to a desire for clear lines and moral principles. This book brings the disciplines of law, sociology, politics and theology into conversation with one anther to shed light on the questions thrown up by 'religion in a liberal state'. It discusses practical problems in a British context, such as the accommodation of religious dress, discrimination against sexual minorities and state support for historic religions; considers legal frameworks of equality and human rights; and elucidates leading ideas of neutrality, pluralism, secularism and public reason. Fundamentally, it asks what it means to be liberal in a world in which religious diversity is becoming more present and more problematic
    Abstract: Religion in a liberal state / Raymond Plant -- The European Court of Human Rights and religious neutrality / Ian Leigh -- Religion and sexual orientation : conflict or cohesion? / Maleiha Malik -- Liberal religion and illiberal secularism / Linda Woodhead -- Moderate secularism in liberal societies? / Derek McGhee -- Excluded, included or foundational? religions in liberal democratic states / Veit Bader -- Justificatory secularism / Cécile Laborde -- What lacks is feeling : Hume versus Kant and Habermas / John Milbank -- Arguing out of bounds : Christian eloquence and the end of Johannine liberalism / John Perry
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107323674
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  • 3
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    Religion and conflict in modern South Asia (2012)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780521879491 , 9781139159876 , 9781283340946
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 345 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
    DDC: 306.60954
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    Keywords: Social conflict Religious aspects ; History ; Social conflict History ; South Asia Religion
    Abstract: An incisive analysis of religious conflict in South Asia, which it is argued arises out of weak political and state structures
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: community and conflict in South Asia; 2. Building spheres of community: 1860s - 1910s; 3. Transforming spheres of community: the post First World War wold; 4. Nationalising spheres of community: anti-colonialism and religious politics; 5. The 1940s, state transformation, community and conflict; 6. National integrity and pluralism, 1947-1967; 7. The decades of transformation: 1970s and 1980s; 8. The resurgence of religious nationalism: 1990 to the present.
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  • 4
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    Faith and money : how religion contributes to wealth and poverty (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139028547
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 248 pages)
    DDC: 201/.73
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    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: For those who own it, wealth can have extraordinary advantages. High levels of wealth can enhance educational attainment, create occupational opportunities, generate social influence and provide a buffer against financial emergencies. Even a small amount of savings can improve security, mitigate the effects of job loss and other financial setbacks and improve well-being dramatically. Although the benefits of wealth are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly throughout the United States. In the United States, because religion is an important part of cultural orientation, religious beliefs should affect material well-being. This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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  • 5
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    Sacred and secular : religion and politics worldwide (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511894862
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 375 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Religion and politics ; Secularism ; Politik ; Religiosität ; Säkularisierung ; Religion ; Religion ; Politik ; Säkularisierung ; Religiosität ; Säkularisierung
    Abstract: This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries. This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices, values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in rich nations
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Part I: Understanding Secularization: 1. The secularization debate; 2. Measuring secularization; 3. Comparing secularization worldwide; Part II: Case Studies of Religion and Politics: 4. The puzzle of secularization in the United States and Western Europe; 5. A religious revival in post-communist Europe?; 6. Religion and politics in the Muslim world; Part III: The Consequences of Secularization: 7. Religion, the Protestant ethic, and moral values; 8. Religious organizations and social capital; 9. Religious parties and electoral behavior; Part IV: Conclusions: 10. Secularization and its consequences; 11. Re-examining the theory of existential security; 12. Re-examining evidence for the security thesis
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511894862
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  • 6
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    Faith and Money : How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780521896511 , 9781139137454 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 262 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139137454
    Edition: ISBN (falsch) 9781139141475
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 201/.73
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    QD 100
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    BE 2260
    Keywords: Wohlstand ; Verteilung ; Religion ; USA
    Abstract: This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans' incomes, savings and net worth.
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    Cults, Religion, and Violence (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780511157233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages)
    DDC: 306.699
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    BE 9200
    Keywords: Gewalt ; Religion ; Sekte
    Abstract: Explores recent high profile cases of new religious movements involved in violence.
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    Cults, religion, and violence (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511499326
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 249 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.6/99
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    BE 9200
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    Keywords: Religion ; Violence / Religious aspects ; Cults ; Gewalt ; Neue Religiosität ; Religion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gewalt ; Religion ; Neue Religiosität ; Gewalt
    Abstract: This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, managed and averted. The authors, leading international experts on religious movements and violent behavior, focus on the four major episodes of cult violence during the last decade: the tragic conflagration that engulfed the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas; the deadly sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo in Tokyo; the murder-suicides by the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Canada; and the collective suicide by the members of Heaven's Gate. They explore the dynamics leading to these dramatic episodes in North America, Europe, and Asia, and offer insights into the general relationship between violence and religious cults in contemporary society. The authors conclude that these events usually involve some combination of internal and external dynamics through which a new religious movement and society become polarized
    Description / Table of Contents: Violence and religion in perspective / David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton -- Dramatic denouements / David G. Bromley -- Challenging misconceptions about the new religions-violence connection / J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley -- Sources of volatility in religious movements / Thomas Robbins -- Crises of charismatic legitimacy and violent behavior in new religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson -- Public agency involvement in government-religious movement confrontations / Stuart A. Wright -- Watching for violence: a comparative analysis of the roles of five types of cult-watching groups / Eileen Barker -- Mass suicide and the Branch Davidians / John R. Hall -- Occult masters and the Temple of Doom: the fiery end of the Solar Temple / Massimo Introvigne and Jean-François Mayer -- Dramatic confrontations: Aum Shinrikyô against the world / Ian Reader -- Making sense of the Heaven's Gate suicides / Robert W. Balch and David Taylor -- Lessons from the past, perspective for the future / J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499326
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  • 9
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    Mysticism and kingship in China : the heart of Chinese wisdom (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511612046
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxi, 302 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in religious traditions 11
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    DDC: 303.3/0951
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    Keywords: Politik ; Religion ; Kings and rulers / Religious aspects ; Philosophy, Confucian ; Herrscher ; Mystizismus ; König ; Religion ; Geschichte ; China / Politics and government ; China / Kings and rulers ; China ; China ; Herrscher ; Mystizismus ; Geschichte ; China ; Herrscher ; Religion ; Geschichte ; China ; König ; Religion ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the sage-king myth and ideal, arguing that institutions of kingship were bound up with cultivation of trance states and communication with spirits. Over time, these associations were retained, though sidelined, as the sage-king myth became a model for the actual ruler, with a messianic appeal for the ruled. As a paradigm, it also became appropriated by private individuals who strove for wisdom without becoming kings. As the Confucian tradition interacted with the Taoist and the Buddhist, the religious character of spiritual and mystical cultivation became more pronounced. But the sage-king idea continued, promoting expectations of benevolent despotism rather than democratisation in Chinese civilisation
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  • 10
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    Weber's Protestant ethic : origins, evidence, contexts (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139052467
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 397 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Weber, Max / 1864-1920 / Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus ; Weber, Max ; Weber, Max ; Sombart, Werner ; Evangelische Kirche ; Kapitalismus ; Religion ; Capitalism / Religious aspects / Protestant churches ; Religion and sociology ; Christian ethics ; Calvinism ; Protestant work ethic ; Wirtschaft ; Protestantismus ; Kapitalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weber, Max 1864-1920 ; Protestantismus ; Wirtschaft ; Sombart, Werner 1863-1941 ; Kapitalismus ; Weber, Max 1864-1920 Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
    Abstract: The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's work, debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation
    Description / Table of Contents: The German theological sources and Protestant church politics / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The thesis before Weber : an archaeology / Paul Münch -- Max Weber, Protestantism, and the debate around 1900 / Thomas Nipperdey -- Weber the would-be-Englishman : anglophilia and family history / Guenther Roth -- Weber's historical concept of national identity / Harry Liebersohn -- Nietzsche's monastery for freer spirits and Weber's sect / Hubert Treiber -- Weber's ascetic practices of the self / Harvey S. Goldman -- The Protestant ethic versus the "new ethic" / Klaus Lichtblau -- The rise of capitalism : Weber versus Sombart / Hartmut Lehmann -- The longevity of the thesis : a critique of the critics / Malcolm H. MacKinnon
    Description / Table of Contents: The use and abuse of textual data / David Zaret -- Biographical evidence of predestination, covenant, and special providence / Kaspar von Greyerz -- The thing that would not die : notes on refutation / Guy Oakes -- Historical viability, sociological significance, and personal judgment / Gianfranco Poggi -- The historiography of continental Calvinism / Philip Benedict -- The Protestant ethic and the reality of capitalism in colonial America / James A. Henretta -- The economic ethics of the world religions / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer -- "Meet me in St. Louis" : Troeltsch and Weber in America / Hans Rollmann
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    Ethnicity, religion, and class in Israeli society (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511520600
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 287 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8/0095694
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    Keywords: Judentum ; Ethnicity / Israel ; Social classes / Israel ; Judaism / Israel ; Soziale Klasse ; Soziologie ; Religion ; Ethnizität ; Ethnische Identität ; Sozialstruktur ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Israel / Ethnic relations ; Israel ; Israel ; Ethnizität ; Religion ; Soziale Klasse ; Israel ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Soziologie ; Israel ; Ethnische Identität ; Sozialstruktur
    Abstract: This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of origin (from Europe, North Africa and Asia), although there is also a chapter on Palestinian Arabs in Israel. This work takes the analysis of ethnic identities and relations much further than previous studies of Israeli society, and is the first to compare the importance of ethnicity with both religion and class and to illustrate the nature of the relationships between all three divisions. The combination of sophisticated theory and research advances the study of Israeli society in particular and the study of social cleavages and conflicts within society in general
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    Religion and custom in a Muslim society : the Berti of Sudan (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511521102
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 78
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    DDC: 305.896/50624
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Berti (African people) ; Muslims / Sudan ; Sozialstruktur ; Berti ; Religion ; Sudan / Social life and customs ; Berti ; Sozialstruktur ; Berti ; Religion
    Abstract: Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary rituals are performed mainly by women. It is usual to dismiss such local, popular practices as pre-Islamic survivals, but Professor Holy shows that the customary rituals constitute an integral part of the religious system of the Berti. Carefully analysing the symbolic statements made in Berti rituals, Professor Holy demonstrates that the distinction between the two classes of rituals is an expression of the gender relationships characteristic of the society. He also examines the social distribution of knowledge about Islam, and explains the role of the religious schools in sustaining religious ideas. The work is not only an ethnographic study of ritual, belief and gender in an African society. It also makes a significant contribution to current anthropological discussion of the interpretation and meaning of rituals and symbols
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    Death and the regeneration of life (1982)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511607646
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 236 pages)
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    Keywords: Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death ; Religion ; Fertility cults ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Wiedergeburt ; Tod ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tod ; Ethnologie ; Tod ; Anthropologie ; Wiedergeburt
    Abstract: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry -- The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry -- Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern -- Lugbara death / John Middleton -- Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson -- Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn -- Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511607646
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511607646
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