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UNINA9910814372603321 |
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Titolo |
The pursuit of certainty : religious and cultural formulations / / edited by Wendy James |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-84087-X |
0-203-45945-8 |
1-134-84088-8 |
1-280-05760-2 |
0-203-45084-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophical anthropology |
Cultural pluralism |
Religion |
Toleration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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