Télécharger le livre :  Beyond the Law: Living Blasphemy in Pakistan
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The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, and contentious blasphemy laws. Challenging conventional perspectives, this book delves beyond legal and religious...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-16
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania
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Set against the backdrop of the rise of right-wing Christian nationalism in Eastern Europe, this book declares that Catholic theologians ought to be understood and studied as intellectuals: socially and historically situated creators of national cultural traditions....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-27
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Living Mantra
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Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-15
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities
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Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-06-03
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anthropology of Religious Charisma
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According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how charisma is a part of cultural frameworks while retaining its ecstatic character among American and Italian Catholics, Syrian...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-18
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anthropology of Protestantism
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Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These debates also call into question assumptions about the decline of religion in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-19
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan
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This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar , spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-09-13
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  The Christianity of Culture
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In this richly contextualized study, Liana Chua explores how a largely Christian Bidayuh community has been reconfiguring its relationship to its old animist rituals through the trope and politics of "culture." Placing her ethnography in dialogue with developments in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-02
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  The Halal Frontier
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In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-08-16
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Spirits without Borders
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Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-07-04
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil
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Through the ethnography of a Catholic community in Northeast Brazil, Maya Mayblin offers a vivid and provocative rethink of gendered portrayals of Catholic life. For the residents of Santa Lucia, life is conceptualized as a series of moral tradeoffs between the sinful...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-03-29
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Yoruba in Diaspora
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The Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer, spirit...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-09-16
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  The Road to Clarity
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In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world. The Road to Clarity is one of the first ethnographic in-depth studies of this phenomenon. It is a vivid account based on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-11-18
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Islam Obscured
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Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by Clifford Geertz...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-02-15
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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