The Anthropology of Catholicism : A Reader / Kristin Norget.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norget, Kristin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Anthropology of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism's long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Anthropology of Catholicism / Mayblin, Maya / Norget, Kristin / Napolitano, Valentina

Part One. A Genealogy of the Anthropology of Catholicism

1. Excerpt from "St Besse: A Study of an Alpine Cult" / Hertz, Robert

2. Excerpt from "Tarantism and Catholicism" / de Martino, Ernesto

3. Excerpt from "The Place of Grace in Anthropology" / Pitt-Rivers, Julian A.

4. Excerpt from "The Dinka and Catholicism" / Lienhardt, Godfrey

5. Excerpt from "Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage" / Turner, Victor / Turner, Edith

6. Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish Valley / Christian, William A.

7. Excerpt from "The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain" / Brandes, Stanley H.

8. Excerpt from "Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century" / Walker Bynum, Caroline

Part Two. Contemporary Works in the Anthropology of Catholicism

9. "Complexio Oppositorum"? Religion, Society, and Power in the Making of Catholicism in Rural South India / Mosse, David

10. Marking Memory: Heritage Work and Devotional Labor at Quebec's Croix de Chemin / Kaell, Hillary

11. Containment and Contagion: The Gender of Sin in Contemporary Catholicism / Mayblin, Maya

12. Opulence and Simplicity: The Question of Tension in Syrian Catholicism / Bandak, Andreas

13. The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism: Rupture and Continuity in a Q'eqchi'-Maya Parish / Hoenes del Pinal, Eric

14. The Virgin of Guadalupe and Spectacles of Catholic Evangelism in Mexico / Norget, Kristin

15. The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine / Badone, Ellen

16. A Catholic Body? Miracles, Secularity, and the Porous Self in Malta / Mitchell, Jon P.

17. Experiments of Inculturation in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon / Lado, Ludovic

18. On a Political Economy of Political Theology: El Señor de los Milagros / Napolitano, Valentina

19. Making a Home in an Unfortunate Place: Phenomenology and Religion / Molina, J. Michelle

Part Three. Interventions in the Anthropology of Catholicism

20. "We're All Catholics Now" / Coleman, Simon

21. What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis? / Orsi, Robert A.

22. Possession and Psychopathology, Faith and Reason / Csordas, Thomas J.

23. Catholicism and the Study of Religion / Meyer, Birgit

24. The Media of Sensation / Largier, Niklaus

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520963368

0520963369

OCLC:

952200151