On the margins of religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Frances Pine and João de Pina-Cabral

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.6
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology of religion; Religion and sociology
• Soggetto non controllato: Anthropology of Religion, Theory and Methodology
• Altri autori: PineFrances <1952-> Pina-CabralJoão de
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: On the margins: an introduction / João Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine -- Homeless spirits: modern spiritualism, psychical research and the anthropology of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / João Vasconcelos -- The abominations of anthropology: Christianity, ethnographic taboos, and the meanings of "science" / Simon Coleman -- Religious logistics: African Christians, spirituality, and transportation / Thomas Kirsch -- Contested spaces: temple building and the re-creation of religious boundaries in contemporary urban India / Ursula Rao -- Bosnian neighborhoods revisited: tolerance, commitment, and Komšiluk in Sarajevo / Cornelia Sorabji -- Revival of Buddhist royal family commemorative ritual in Laos / Grant Evans -- Centres and margins: the organisation of extravagance as self-government in China / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Allies and subordinates: religious practice on the margins between Buddhistm and shamanism in southern Siberia / Galina Lindquist -- On celibate marriages: conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland / Agnieszka Kościańska -- Elders' cathedrals and childrens' marbles: dynamics of religious transmission among the Baga of Guinea / Ramon Sarró -- Geomancy, politics, and colonial encounters in rural Hong Kong / Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson -- The sacrifices of modernity in a Soviet-built steel town in Central India / Jonathan P. Parry.
• Sommario/riassunto: Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives, and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalization of the twenty-first century
• Titolo autorizzato: On the margins of religion
• ISBN: 1-282-62663-9; 9786612626630; 0-85745-011-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791367103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II