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Record Nr.

UNISA996248323603316

Autore

Berliner David

Titolo

Learning religion [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological approaches / / edited by David Berliner and Ramon Sarró

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2007

ISBN

1-4619-5102-X

Descrizione fisica

vi, 239 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm

Collana

Methodology and history in anthropology ; ; v. 17

Altri autori (Persone)

BerlinerDavid

SarróRamon

Disciplina

207/.5

Soggetti

Ethnology - Religious aspects

Anthropology of religion

Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on conference held at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, 1 September 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.