1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450639603321

Autore

Morris Douglas <1961->

Titolo

It's a sprawl world after all [[electronic resource] ] : [the human cost of unplanned growth-- and visions of a better future] / / Douglas E. Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gabriola, BC, : New Society Publishers, c2005

ISBN

1-282-46423-X

1-55092-321-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

307.760976

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Growth - Social aspects - United States

Suburbs - United States

Community development, Urban - United States

City and town life

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Subtitle from cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Advance Praise; Half Title; Title Page; Rights Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Part One; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Part Two; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Notes; Index; About the Author; Other New Society Publishers titles of interest; EcoAudit

Sommario/riassunto

Makes the startling connection between suburban sprawl and the violent breakdown of American society.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955287103321

Titolo

The anthropology of Christianity / / edited by Fenella Cannell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006

ISBN

9786613022417

9780822336082

0822336081

9781283022415

1283022419

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Altri autori (Persone)

CannellFenella

Disciplina

306.6/3

306.63

Soggetti

Christianity and culture

Ethnology - Religious aspects - Christianity

Anthropology of religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell -- The eternal return of conversion: Christianity as contested domain in highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris -- Renewable icons: concepts of religious power in a fishing village in South India / Cecilia Busby -- Possession and confession: affliction and sacred power in colonial and contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse -- Reading as gift and writing as theft / Fenella Cannell -- Materializing the self: words and gifts in the construction of charismatic Protestant identity / Simon Coleman -- The effectiveness of ritual / Christina Toren -- Forgetting conversion: the Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro lived world / Peter Gow -- The Bible meets the idol: writing and conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford -- Scripture study as normal science: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller -- Appropriated and monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse -- Epilogue: anxious transcendence / Webb Keane.



Sommario/riassunto

Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.