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Crossing and dwelling : a theory of religion /

"Crossing and Dwelling depicts religion in place and in movement, dwelling and crossing. Tweed considers how religion situates devotees in time and space, positioning them in the body, the home, the homeland, and the cosmos. He explores how the religious employ tropes, artifacts, rituals, and i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tweed, Thomas A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Crossing and Dwelling depicts religion in place and in movement, dwelling and crossing. Tweed considers how religion situates devotees in time and space, positioning them in the body, the home, the homeland, and the cosmos. He explores how the religious employ tropes, artifacts, rituals, and institutions to mark boundaries and to prescribe and proscribe different kinds of movements across those boundaries; and how religions enable and constrain terrestrial, corporeal, and cosmic crossings."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-252) and index.
ISBN:9780674044517
0674044517