The pursuit of certainty : religious and cultural formulations / / edited by Wendy James
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| Titolo: |
The pursuit of certainty : religious and cultural formulations / / edited by Wendy James
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 128 |
| 305 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophical anthropology |
| Cultural pluralism | |
| Religion | |
| Toleration | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
JamesWendy
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| Note generali: | Based on papers from the 4th Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held in Oxford in 1993. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
| Cultural certainties and private doubtsName index; Subject index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The pursuit of certainty |
| ISBN: | 0-203-45945-8 |
| 1-134-84088-8 | |
| 1-280-05760-2 | |
| 0-203-45084-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450969303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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