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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814372603321

Titolo

The pursuit of certainty : religious and cultural formulations / / edited by Wendy James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-134-84087-X

0-203-45945-8

1-134-84088-8

1-280-05760-2

0-203-45084-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

The uses of knowledge

Altri autori (Persone)

JamesWendy

Disciplina

128

305

Soggetti

Philosophical anthropology

Cultural pluralism

Religion

Toleration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Foreword: the pursuit of certainty; Introduction: whatever happened to the Enlightenment?; Managing tradition: 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees; History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda; Race, culture and; what?: pluralist certainties in the United States; Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India; Inventing certainties: the dakwah persona in Malaysia

Powerful knowledge in a global Sufi cult: reflections on the poetics of travelling theoriesTopophilia, Zionism and 'certainty': making a place out of the space that became Israel again; The politics of tolerance: Buddhists and Christians, truth and error in Sri Lanka; Changing



certainties and the move to a 'global' religion: medical knowledge and Islamization among Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Benin; Bourdieu and the diviner: knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination; Choking on the Quran: and other consuming parables from the western Indian Ocean front

Cultural certainties and private doubtsName index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.