A companion to the anthropology of religion / edited by Janice Boddy, Michael Lambek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boddy, Janice

Lambek, Michael.

Series:

Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 25.

Blackwell companions to anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (585 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 worldExplores a broad range of topics including the 'perspectivism' debate, the rise of religious nationalism,

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; What Is "Religion" for Anthropology? And What Has Anthropology Brought to "Religion"?; The Challenge of Religion; Incommensurable Modes of Inquiry; Human Activity; Experience; Incommensurability and Pluralism; Christianity; Transcendence and Its Limits; Immanent and Transcendent Manifestation of Religion; Religious Fronts; Secularism and the Immanent; References; PART I: Worlds and Intersections; CHAPTER 1: Presence, Attachment, Origin: Ontologies of "Incarnates"

Ontological PluralismSpirits; Deities; Antecedents; References; CHAPTER 2: The Dynamic Reproduction of Hunter-Gatherers' Ontologies and Values; Why the Category of Hunter-Gatherers?; Relational Ontologies; Ancestrality; Positional Truths and Knowledge; Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers' Forms of Religiosity: A Brief Overview; References; CHAPTER 3: Cohabiting an Interreligious Milieu: Reflections on Religious Diversity; Theological Puzzles; Statecraft and Religious Diversity; Forms of the Local; Desiring Subjects, Intimate Relations, Self-Formation; Concluding Comments; References

CHAPTER 4: Religious and Legal Particularism and UniversalityNo. 10 Krochmalna Street; "Out of My Father's Mouth Spoke the Torah"; Secularization and Sacralization; Conclusion: The "Middle Kingdom"; References; PART II: Epistemologies; CHAPTER 5: Are Ancestors Dead?; Our Starting Point; Experimental and Ethnographic Insights; Deference in Ritual and Beyond; Back to the Vezo; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 6: Coping with Religious Diversity: Incommensurability and Other Perspectives; Coping with Religious Diversity: The Academic Models; Dualism and Conflict; Interconnections

IncommensurabilityFamadihana - Perspectives on the "Turning of the Dead" Ritual; Encountering Diversity - Perspectives; Official Positions of the Christian Churches; The Roman Catholic Church of Madagascar; The Protestant Churches of Madagascar; Christian Revival Movements and Pentecostal Churches; Views of the Participants of Famadihana; Right and Wrong Religions; It's All the Same; Two Religions; Two Traditions; Incommensurable Traditions and Incommensurable Models?; References; CHAPTER 7: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion; A Tripartite Framework

First Semiotic Ideology: Words as Vehicles of ThoughtSecond Semiotic Ideology: Words as Vehicles of Creation; Third Semiotic Ideology: Words as Vehicles of Action; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 8: Religion and the Truth of Being; References; PART III: Time and Ethics; CHAPTER 9: Ethics; References; CHAPTER 10: The Social and Political Theory of the Soul; Durkheim's Ghosts; Non-Ancestral Spirits; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 11: Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West; Genealogical Ancestors, Telepathic Ghosts?; Ancestral Pieties; Ghosts of Ancestors

Ancestors into Ghosts: The Interdiction of Kinship as Religion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118605974

1118605977

9781118606094

1118606094

9781119124993

1119124999

9781118605936

1118605934

9781118605899

1118605896

OCLC:

869812055