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UNINA9910784418103321 |
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Engelke Matthew Eric |
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A problem of presence [[electronic resource] ] : beyond Scripture in an African church / / Matthew Engelke |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
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9786612358616 |
1-282-35861-8 |
0-520-94004-0 |
1-4337-0830-2 |
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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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The anthropology of Christianity ; ; 2 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- 1. Up in Smoke: Humility, Humiliation, and the Christian Book -- 2. The Early Days of Johane Masowe -- 3. The Question of Leadership: The Friday Message after Johane -- 4. Mutemo in Three Portraits -- 5. Listening for the True Bible: Live and Direct Language, Part I -- 6. Singing and the Metaphysics of Sound: Live and Direct Language, Part II -- 7. The Substance of Healing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as "the Christians who don't read the Bible." They claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God "live and direct" from the Holy Spirit. In this insightful and sensitive historical ethnography, Matthew Engelke documents how this rejection of scripture speaks to longstanding concerns within Christianity over mediation and authority. The Bible, of course, has been a key medium through which Christians have recognized God's presence. But the apostolics perceive scripture as an unnecessary, even dangerous, mediator. For them, the materiality of the Bible marks a distance from the divine and prohibits the realization of a live and direct faith. Situating the Masowe case within a broad comparative framework, Engelke shows how their rejection of |
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textual authority poses a problem of presence-which is to say, how the religious subject defines, and claims to construct, a relationship with the spiritual world through the semiotic potentials of language, actions, and objects. Written in a lively and accessible style, A Problem of Presence makes important contributions to the anthropology of Christianity, the history of religions in Africa, semiotics, and material culture studies. |
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UNINA9910765875103321 |
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Autore |
Van Bremen Jan |
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Asian anthropology / / edited by Jan van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari and Syed Farid Alatas |
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2004 |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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9786610215737 |
9781134271009 |
113427100X |
9781134271016 |
1134271018 |
9781280215735 |
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9780203308141 |
020330814X |
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1 online resource (262 pages) |
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Anthropology of Asia series |
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HIS003000SOC000000SOC008000 |
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Ethnology - Asia - Philosophy |
Ethnology - Asia - History |
Philosophy, Asian |
Anthropologists - Attitudes |
Indigenous peoples - Education (Higher) |
Racism in anthropology |
Asia Social life and customs |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Asian anthropologies and anthropologies in Asia : an introductory essay / Eyal Ben-Ari and Jan van Bremen -- Indigenous and indigenized anthropology in Asia / Grant Evans -- Beyond orthodoxy : social and cultural anthropology in the People's Republic of China / Frank N. Pieke -- Anthropologists of Asia, anthropologists in Asia : the academic mode of production in the semi-periphery / Jerry S. Eades -- Native discourse in the 'academic world system' : Kunio Yanagita's project of global folkloristics reconsidered / Takami Kuwayama -- Korean anthropology : a search for new paradigms / Okpyo Moon -- 'Indigenizing' anthropology in India : problematics of negotiating an identity / Vineeta Sinha -- An Indian anthropology? : what kind of object is it? / Roma Chatterji -- From Volkenkunde to Djurusan antropologi : the emergence of Indonesian anthropology in postwar Indonesia / Michael Prager -- Anthropology and the nation state : applied anthropology in Indonesia / Martin Ramstedt -- Indigenization : features and problems / Syed Farid Alatas. |
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Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed and continue to develop according to their own internal dynamics. With chapters written by an international group of experts in the field, Asian Anthropology will be a useful teac |
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