Télécharger le livre :  Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia

This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and global notions of the modern bureaucratic state. These notions have coexisted in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-06-11
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Yoruba in Diaspora

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

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 :  A Peaceful Jihad

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalisation, and a supposed clash of civilizations. The pesantren...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2005-05-12
Collection : Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Télécharger le livre :  Islam Obscured

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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