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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

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 :  Judaism in Motion

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-17
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Living Mantra

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 :  Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco

Exploring the roles of Muslim guards and guides in Jewish cemeteries in Morocco, Cory Thomas Pechan Driver suggests that these custodians use performances of ritual and caring acts for Jewish graves for multiple reasons. Imazighen [Berbers] stress their close ties with...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-16
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Questioning French Secularism

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-06
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities

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 :  Hierarchy and Pluralism

What is the place of pluralism in the context of a dominant religion? How does the perception of religion as “tradition” and “culture” affect pluralism? Why do minorities’ demands for recognition often transform into exclusion? Through her ethnography of a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-03-18
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anthropology of Religious Charisma

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 :  Buddhism, International Relief Work, and Civil Society

Natural disasters in Asian countries have brought global attention to the work of local Buddhist communities and groups. Here, the contributors examine local Buddhist communities and international Buddhist organizations engaged in a variety of relief work in countries...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-17
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anthropology of Protestantism

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

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

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 :  Communitas

Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense felt by a group when their life together takes on full meaning. The experience of communitas, almost beyond strict...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-02
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Faith in Objects

Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-11-21
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  The Halal Frontier

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

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 :  Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America

Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonstrates that the quasi-religious commission of self-empowerment accounts...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-09
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil

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 :  Missions and Conversions

This study offers a fresh reading of religious conversion by analyzing a variety of "missionaries" that sought to influence the Montagnard-Dega refugee. Thomas Pearson uses ethnographic and archival research to tell the story of cross-cultural contact in the highlands...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-06-22
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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