A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Boddy, Janice; Lambek, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

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 world * Explores a broad range of topics including the 'perspectivism' debate, the rise of religious nationalism, reflections on religion and new media, religion and politics, and ideas of self and gender in relation to religious belief * Includes examples drawn from different religious traditions and from several regions of the world * Features newly-commissioned articles reflecting the most up-to-date research and critical thinking in the field, written by an international team of leading scholars * Adds immeasurably to our understanding of the complex relationships between religion, culture, society, and the individual in today's world

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118605899
• Artikelnr.: 40343368

Autorenporträt

Janice Boddy is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her books include Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan (1989); Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl (1994); and Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan (2007). Michael Lambek is Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His books include Human Spirits (1981, 2009); Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession (1993); The Weight of the Past (2002); and Ordinary Ethics (2010). He is also the editor of A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface and Acknowledgments
xiv What Is "Religion" for Anthropology? And What Has Anthropology Brought
to "Religion"? 1 Michael Lambek Part I Worlds and Intersections 33 1
Presence, Attachment, Origin: Ontologies of "Incarnates" 35 Philippe
Descola 2 The Dynamic Reproduction of Hunter-Gatherers' Ontologies and
Values 50 Sylvie Poirier 3 Cohabiting an Interreligious Milieu: Reflections
on Religious Diversity 69 Veena Das 4 Religious and Legal Particularism and
Universality 85 Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Part II Epistemologies 101 5 Are
Ancestors Dead? 103 Rita Astuti and Maurice Bloch 6 Coping with Religious
Diversity: Incommensurability and Other Perspectives 118 Eva Spies 7
Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion 137
Michael Lambek 8 Religion and the Truth of Being 154 Paul Stoller Part III
Time and Ethics 169 9 Ethics 171 James Laidlaw 10 The Social and Political
Theory of the Soul 189 Heonik Kwon 11 Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern
West 202 Fenella Cannell 12 The Work of Memory: Ritual Laments of the Dead
and Korea's Cheju Massacre 223 Seong-nae Kim 13 The Globalization of
Pentecostalism and the Limits of Globalization 239 Girish Daswani Part IV
Practices and Mediations 255 14 Food, Life, and Material Religion in
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity 257 Tom Boylston 15 Trading with God:
Islam, Calculation, Excess 274 Amira Mittermaier 16 Ritual Remains:
Studying Contemporary Pilgrimage 294 Simon Coleman 17 Mediation and
Immediacy: Sensational Forms, Semiotic Ideologies, and the Question of the
Medium 309 Birgit Meyer Part V Languages and Conversions 327 18 Translating
God's Words 329 Wendy James 19 Christianity as a Polemical Concept 344
Pamela E. Klassen 20 Reconfi guring Humanity in Amazonia: Christianity and
Change 363 Aparecida Vilaça 21 Language in Christian Conversion 387 William
F. Hanks Part VI Persons and Histories 407 22 Canonizing Soviet Pasts in
Contemporary Russia: The Case of Saint Matrona of Moscow 409 Jeanne Kormina
23 Reflections on Death, Religion, Identity, and the Anthropology of
Religion 425 Ellen Badone 24 Spirits and Selves Revisited: Zâr and Islam in
Northern Sudan 444 Janice Boddy Part VII Powers 469 25 The Political
Landscape of Early State Religions 471 Edward Swenson 26 A Syariah
Judiciary as a Global Assemblage: Islamization and Beyond in a Southeast
Asian Context 489 Michael G. Peletz 27 The Catholicization of Neoliberalism
507 Andrea Muehlebach 28 The Sacred and the City: Modernity, Religion, and
the Urban Form in Central Africa 528 Filip De Boeck Index 549

Rezensionen

"Striking a balance between theoretical exploration, state of the art topical synthesis, and vivid case studies, Boddy and Lambek's remarkable volume proves that the anthropology of religion remains one of the discipline's most vibrant fields of inquiry." - Stephan Palmié, University of Chicago

"After a period of relative quiescence, the anthropology of religion is once again thriving and playing a central role in some of the most important theoretical and empirical debates in contemporary anthropology. With a first rate selection of authors both junior and senior, this volume will serve as a solid reference for what has been accomplished so far. More than that, the wide range and originality of the entries will surely stimulate further developments in the field as well." - Webb Keane, University of Michigan

"Can we re-invent the anthropology of religion? These essays suggest ways to do so, ranging from perspectivism to morality, and from epistemology to practice, which entice us with innovations and inspirations for new ways to proceed." - Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California