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On the margins of religion /
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 term...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On the margins: an introduction / João Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine
- Homeless spirits: modern spiritualism, psychical research and the anthropology of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / João 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 Komšiluk 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 Kościańska
- Elders' cathedrals and childrens' marbles: dynamics of religious transmission among the Baga of Guinea / Ramon Sarró
- 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.