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The pursuit of certainty : religious and cultural formulations / edited by Wendy James.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference 1993 : Oxford, England). (4th : Uses of knowledge.
- The uses of knowledge
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Religion--Cross-cultural studies.
- Religion.
- Toleration--Cross-cultural studies.
- Toleration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Foreword: the pursuit of certainty; Introduction: whatever happened to the Enlightenment?; Managing tradition: 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees; History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda; Race, culture and; what?: pluralist certainties in the United States; Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India; Inventing certainties: the dakwah persona in Malaysia
- Powerful knowledge in a global Sufi cult: reflections on the poetics of travelling theoriesTopophilia, Zionism and 'certainty': making a place out of the space that became Israel again; The politics of tolerance: Buddhists and Christians, truth and error in Sri Lanka; Changing certainties and the move to a 'global' religion: medical knowledge and Islamization among Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Benin; Bourdieu and the diviner: knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination; Choking on the Quran: and other consuming parables from the western Indian Ocean front
- Cultural certainties and private doubtsName index; Subject index
- Notes:
- Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-84087-X
- 0-203-45945-8
- 1-134-84088-8
- 1-280-05760-2
- 0-203-45084-1
- 9780203450840
- OCLC:
- 475892904
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