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Encounters of body and soul in contemporary religious practices : anthropological reflections / edited by Anna Fedele and Ruy Llera Blanes.
LIBRA BL604.B64 E53 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- EASA series ; v. 16.
- EASA series ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Religious aspects.
- Human body.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- This collection of ten articles on the anthropology of religion examines the role of corporeality in religious beliefs. The work is divided into sections covering bodies and souls in Catholicism, corporeality, belief and human mobility, and new spirituality and body-soul dualism. Individual essays address such topics as embodying devotion in the Italian Festa dei Gigli, representations of the body in Talimbi witchcraft and body praxes of performed religiosity in contemporary Greece. Chapters provide numerous illustrations and figures. Contributors include anthropologists from European and South American institutions. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857452078
- 085745207X
- 9780857452085
- 0857452088
- OCLC:
- 699009359
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