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200 04$aThe pursuit of certainty $ereligious and cultural formulations /$fedited by Wendy James
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1995.
215   $a1 online resource (330 p.)
225 1 $aThe uses of knowledge
300   $aBased on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993.
311   $a0-415-10791-1 
311   $a0-415-10790-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aBook 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
327   $aPowerful 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
327   $aCultural certainties and private doubtsName index; Subject index
330   $aAn exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.
606   $aPhilosophical anthropology
606   $aCultural pluralism
606   $aReligion$vCross-cultural studies
606   $aToleration$vCross-cultural studies
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aPhilosophical anthropology.
615  0$aCultural pluralism.
615  0$aReligion
615  0$aToleration
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712 02$aAssociation of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth.$bConference$d(4th :$f1993 :$eOxford, England)
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