ISBN:
9780470673324
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047067332X
,
1118606019
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1118605934
,
1118605896
,
1118606094
,
9780470673324
,
9781118606018
,
9781118605936
,
9781118605899
,
9781118606094
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (585 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
Parallel Title:
Print version A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Anthropologie
;
Religion
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:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; What Is "Religion" for Anthropology? And What Has Anthropology Brought to "Religion"?; The Challenge of Religion; Incommensurable Modes of Inquiry; Human Activity; Experience; Incommensurability and Pluralism; Christianity; Transcendence and Its Limits; Immanent and Transcendent Manifestation of Religion; Religious Fronts; Secularism and the Immanent; References; PART I: Worlds and Intersections; CHAPTER 1: Presence, Attachment, Origin: Ontologies of "Incarnates"
Description / Table of Contents:
Ontological PluralismSpirits; Deities; Antecedents; References; CHAPTER 2: The Dynamic Reproduction of Hunter-Gatherers' Ontologies and Values; Why the Category of Hunter-Gatherers?; Relational Ontologies; Ancestrality; Positional Truths and Knowledge; Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers' Forms of Religiosity: A Brief Overview; References; CHAPTER 3: Cohabiting an Interreligious Milieu: Reflections on Religious Diversity; Theological Puzzles; Statecraft and Religious Diversity; Forms of the Local; Desiring Subjects, Intimate Relations, Self-Formation; Concluding Comments; References
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 4: Religious and Legal Particularism and UniversalityNo. 10 Krochmalna Street; "Out of My Father's Mouth Spoke the Torah"; Secularization and Sacralization; Conclusion: The "Middle Kingdom"; References; PART II: Epistemologies; CHAPTER 5: Are Ancestors Dead?; Our Starting Point; Experimental and Ethnographic Insights; Deference in Ritual and Beyond; Back to the Vezo; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 6: Coping with Religious Diversity: Incommensurability and Other Perspectives; Coping with Religious Diversity: The Academic Models; Dualism and Conflict; Interconnections
Description / Table of Contents:
IncommensurabilityFamadihana - Perspectives on the "Turning of the Dead" Ritual; Encountering Diversity - Perspectives; Official Positions of the Christian Churches; The Roman Catholic Church of Madagascar; The Protestant Churches of Madagascar; Christian Revival Movements and Pentecostal Churches; Views of the Participants of Famadihana; Right and Wrong Religions; It's All the Same; Two Religions; Two Traditions; Incommensurable Traditions and Incommensurable Models?; References; CHAPTER 7: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion; A Tripartite Framework
Description / Table of Contents:
First Semiotic Ideology: Words as Vehicles of ThoughtSecond Semiotic Ideology: Words as Vehicles of Creation; Third Semiotic Ideology: Words as Vehicles of Action; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 8: Religion and the Truth of Being; References; PART III: Time and Ethics; CHAPTER 9: Ethics; References; CHAPTER 10: The Social and Political Theory of the Soul; Durkheim's Ghosts; Non-Ancestral Spirits; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 11: Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West; Genealogical Ancestors, Telepathic Ghosts?; Ancestral Pieties; Ghosts of Ancestors
Description / Table of Contents:
Ancestors into Ghosts: The Interdiction of Kinship as Religion
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1002/9781118605936
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