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Learning religion : anthropological approaches /

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berliner, David, Sarró, Ramon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Colección:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • On learning religion : an introduction / David Berliner and Ramon Sarró
  • Learning to believe : a preliminary approach / Carlo Severi
  • Menstrual slaps and first blood celebrations : inference, simulation and the learning of ritual / Michael Houseman
  • The accidental in religious instruction : ideas and convictions / David Parkin
  • On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does / Michael Lambek
  • How do you learn to know that it is God who speaks? / T.M. Luhrmann
  • How to learn in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion : ontology and multiplicity in Candomblé / Marcio Goldman
  • Learning to be a proper medium : middle-class womanhood and spirit mediumship at Christian rationalist séances in Cape Verde / João Vasconcelos
  • Copyright and authorship : ritual speech and the new market of words in Toraja / Aurora Donzelli
  • Learning faith : young Christians and catechism / Laurence Hérault
  • What is interesting about Chinese religion / Charles Stafford
  • The sound of witchcraft : noise as mediation in religious transmission / Michael Rowlands.