03582oam 2200733I 450 991081437260332120240405091905.01-134-84087-X0-203-45945-81-134-84088-81-280-05760-20-203-45084-110.4324/9780203450840 (CKB)1000000000255213(EBL)181731(OCoLC)475892904(SSID)ssj0000283292(PQKBManifestationID)11236604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283292(PQKBWorkID)10248155(PQKB)10865894(MiAaPQ)EBC181731(Au-PeEL)EBL181731(CaPaEBR)ebr10099188(CaONFJC)MIL5760(OCoLC)243606827(EXLCZ)99100000000025521320180331d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe pursuit of certainty religious and cultural formulations /edited by Wendy James1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,1995.1 online resource (330 p.)The uses of knowledgeBased on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993.0-415-10791-1 0-415-10790-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 MalaysiaPowerful 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 frontCultural certainties and private doubtsName index; Subject indexAn exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.Philosophical anthropologyCultural pluralismReligionCross-cultural studiesTolerationCross-cultural studiesPhilosophical anthropology.Cultural pluralism.ReligionToleration128305James Wendy243377Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth.Conference(4th :1993 :Oxford, England)FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910814372603321The pursuit of certainty4078676UNINA