On the margins of religion / edited by Frances Pine and Joao de Pina-Cabral.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pine, Frances, 1952-

Pina-Cabral, João de.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology of religion.

Religion and sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives, and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalization of the twenty-first century

Contents:

On the margins: an introduction / Joao Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine

Homeless spirits: modern spiritualism, psychical research and the anthropology of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Joao Vasconcelos

The abominations of anthropology: Christianity, ethnographic taboos, and the meanings of "science" / Simon Coleman

Religious logistics: African Christians, spirituality, and transportation / Thomas Kirsch

Contested spaces: temple building and the re-creation of religious boundaries in contemporary urban India / Ursula Rao

Bosnian neighborhoods revisited: tolerance, commitment, and Komsiluk in Sarajevo / Cornelia Sorabji

Revival of Buddhist royal family commemorative ritual in Laos / Grant Evans

Centres and margins: the organisation of extravagance as self-government in China / Stephan Feuchtwang

Allies and subordinates: religious practice on the margins between Buddhistm and shamanism in southern Siberia / Galina Lindquist

On celibate marriages: conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland / Agnieszka Koscianska

Elders' cathedrals and childrens' marbles: dynamics of religious transmission among the Baga of Guinea / Ramon Sarro

Geomancy, politics, and colonial encounters in rural Hong Kong / Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson

The sacrifices of modernity in a Soviet-built steel town in Central India / Jonathan P. Parry.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612626630

9781282626638

1282626639

9780857450111

0857450115

OCLC:

645100535