Ordinary lives and grand schemes : an anthropology of everyday religion / edited by Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schielke, Joska Samuli.

Debevec, Liza.

Series:

EASA series ; v. 18.

EASA series ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Divination and Islam: Existential Perspectives in the Study of Ritual and Religious Praxis in Senegal and Gambia; Chapter 2 - Postponing Piety in Urban Burkina Faso: Discussing Ideas on When to Start Acting as a Pious Muslim; Chapter 3 - Everyday Religion, Ambiguity and Homosocial Relationships in Manitoba, Canada from 1911 to 1949; Chapter 4 - 'Doing Things Properly': Religious Aspects in Everyday Sociality in Apiao, Chiloé; Chapter 5 - The Ordinary within the Extraordinary: Sainthood-Making and Everyday Religious Practice in Lesvos, Greece

Chapter 6 - Say a Little Hallo to Padre Pio: Production and Consumption of Space in the Construction of the Sacred at the Shrine of Santa Maria delle GrazieChapter 7 - Goining to the Mulid: Street-smart Spirituality in Egypt; Chapter 8 - Capitalist Ethics and the Spirit of Islamization in Egypt; Afterword - Everyday Religion and the Contemporary World: The Un-Modern, Or What Was Supposed to Have Disappeared But Did Not; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-519-0

1-282-25421-9

9786613814869

0-85745-507-9

OCLC:

804662543