Ritual and memory : toward a comparative anthropology of religion / edited by Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitehouse, Harvey, editor.

Laidlaw, James, editor.

Series:

Cognitive science of religion series.

Cognitive Science of Religion Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Ethnology.

Religion--Philosophy--Congresses.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, California : Altamira Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cogniti

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction JAMES LAIDLAW; CHAPTER 1 Divergent Modes of Religiosity in West Africa J. D.Y. PEEL; CHAPTER 2 Modes of Religiosity and the Legacy of Ernest Gellner DAVID SHANKLAND; CHAPTER 3 Is Image to Doctrine as Speech to Writing? Modes of Communication and the Origins of Religion JACK GOODY; CHAPTER 4 Ritual and Deference MAURICE BLOCH; CHAPTER 5 The Doctrinal Mode and Evangelical Christianity in the United States BRIAN MALLEY; CHAPTER 6 Embedded Modes of Religiosity in lndic Renouncer Religions JAMES LAIDLAW

CHAPTER 7 Conceptualizing from Within: Divergent Religious Modes from Asian Modernist Perspectives SUSAN BAYLYCHAPTER 8 Late Medieval Christianity, Balinese Hinduism, and the Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity LEO HOWE; CHAPTER 9 Religious Doctrine or Experience: A Matter of Seeing, Learning, or Doing GILBERT LEWIS; CHAPTER 10 Universalistic Orientations of an Imagistic Mode of Religiosity: The Case of the West African Poro Cult CHRISTIAN K. HØJBJERG; CHAPTER 11 Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion HARVEY WHITEHOUSE; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

"Based upon the papers presented at an international conference on "modes of religiosity" at King's College, Cambridge, in December 2001."

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7591-0616-9

0-7591-1544-3

OCLC:

854521659