03600nam 2200745Ia 450 991096275270332120251116173541.01-134-84087-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)99100000000025521319941117d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe pursuit of certainty religious and cultural formulations /edited by Wendy James1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19951 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)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962752703321The pursuit of certainty4490799UNINA