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A companion to the anthropology of religion / edited by Janice Boddy, Michael Lambek.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 25.Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118606094 ( ePub)
  • 1118606094 ( ePub)
  • 9781118605899 (Adobe PDF)
  • 1118605896 (Adobe PDF)
  • 9781118606018 (MobiPocket)
  • 1118606019 (MobiPocket)
  • 9781118605936
  • 1118605934
  • 047067332X
  • 9780470673324
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Companion to the anthropology of religionDDC classification:
  • 306.6 23
LOC classification:
  • GN470
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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