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Ordinary lives and grand schemes : an anthropology of everyday religion /
Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a give...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2012.
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| Colección: | EASA series ;
18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 168 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857455079 0857455079 1282254219 9781282254213 9786613814869 6613814865 |