Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalisation of the twenty-first century.…mehr
Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalisation of the twenty-first century. Their ethnographies highlight the embodiment of religion and its location in landscapes, built spaces and religious sites which may be contested, physically or ideologically, or encased in memory and often in silence. Taken together, they show the importance of religion as a resource to the believers: a source of solace, spiritual comfort and self-willed submission.
Frances Pine was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, and a Professor at the Institute of Gender Research at the University of Bergen and is now at Goldsmiths University of London. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Poland over the past 25 years. She is the co-editor of Surviving Post Socialism (Routledge 1998) and Memory, Politics and Religion: the Past Meets the Present in Europe (LIT 2004), and author of numerous articles on kinship, economy and gender, eastern Europe, history, place and memory.
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1. On the Margins: An Introduction João de Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine Chapter 2. Homeless Spirits: Modern Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Anthropology of Religion in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries João Vasconcelos Chapter 3. The Abominations of Anthropology: Christianity, Ethnographic Taboos and the Meanings of 'Science' Simon Coleman Chapter 4. Religious Logistics: African Christians, Spirituality and Transportation Thomas Kirsch Chapter 5. Contested Spaces: Temple Building and the Re-creation of Religious Boundaries in Contemporary Urban India Ursula Rao Chapter 6. Bosnian Neighbourhoods Revisited: Tolerance, Commitment and Kom¡siluk in Sarajevo Cornelia Sorabji Chapter 7. Revival of Buddhist Royal Family Commemorative Ritual in Laos Grant Evans Chapter 8. Centres and Margins: The Organisation of Extravagance as Self-government in China Stephan Feuchtwang Chapter 9. Allies and Subordinates: Religious Practice on the Margins between Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern Siberia Galina Lindquist Chapter 10. On Celibate Marriages: Conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland Agnieszka Koscianska Chapter 11. Elders' Cathedrals and Children's Marbles: Dynamics of Religious Transmission among the Baga of Guinea Ramon Sarró Chapter 12. Geomancy, Politics and Colonial Encounters in Rural Hong Kong Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson Chapter 13. The Sacrifices of Modernity in a Soviet-built Steel Town in Central India Jonathan P. Parry Notes on Contributors Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1. On the Margins: An Introduction João de Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine Chapter 2. Homeless Spirits: Modern Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Anthropology of Religion in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries João Vasconcelos Chapter 3. The Abominations of Anthropology: Christianity, Ethnographic Taboos and the Meanings of 'Science' Simon Coleman Chapter 4. Religious Logistics: African Christians, Spirituality and Transportation Thomas Kirsch Chapter 5. Contested Spaces: Temple Building and the Re-creation of Religious Boundaries in Contemporary Urban India Ursula Rao Chapter 6. Bosnian Neighbourhoods Revisited: Tolerance, Commitment and Kom¡siluk in Sarajevo Cornelia Sorabji Chapter 7. Revival of Buddhist Royal Family Commemorative Ritual in Laos Grant Evans Chapter 8. Centres and Margins: The Organisation of Extravagance as Self-government in China Stephan Feuchtwang Chapter 9. Allies and Subordinates: Religious Practice on the Margins between Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern Siberia Galina Lindquist Chapter 10. On Celibate Marriages: Conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland Agnieszka Koscianska Chapter 11. Elders' Cathedrals and Children's Marbles: Dynamics of Religious Transmission among the Baga of Guinea Ramon Sarró Chapter 12. Geomancy, Politics and Colonial Encounters in Rural Hong Kong Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson Chapter 13. The Sacrifices of Modernity in a Soviet-built Steel Town in Central India Jonathan P. Parry Notes on Contributors Index
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