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The pursuit of certainty : religious and cultural formulations /
"The peoples of the world are now facing economic integration and social interaction on a wider scale than ever before. But has this produced a greater sense of common reason, or shared world citizenship? Contemporary global communication, itself celebrating diversity, has paradoxically stimula...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1995.
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| Colección: | Uses of knowledge.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: whatever happened to the Enlightenment? / Wendy James
- Managing tradition: 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees / Janice Boddy
- History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda / Aidan Southall
- Race, culture and- what?: pluralist certainties in the United States / Paul Dresch
- Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India / Lionel Caplan
- Inventing certainties: the dakwah persona in Malaysia / Shamsul A.B.
- Powerful knowledge in a global Sufi cult: reflections on the poetics of travelling theories / Pnina Werbner
- Topophilia, Zionism and 'certainty': making a place out of the space that became Israel again / Robert Paine
- The politics of tolerance: Buddhists and Christians, truth and error in Sri Lanka / Jonathan Spencer
- Changing certainties and the move to a 'global' religion: medical knowledge and Islamization among Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Bénin / Georg Elwert
- Bourdieu and the diviner: knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination / F. Niyi Akinnaso
- Choking on the Quran: and other consuming parables from the western Indian Ocean front / Michael Lambek
- Cultural certainties and private doubts / Roger Just.