Pubbl/distr/stampa	Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (385 p.)
Disciplina	306.6/3
Altri autori (Persone)	CannellFenella
Collana	e-Duke books scholarly collection
Soggetto topico	Christianity and culture Ethnology - Religious aspects - Christianity Anthropology of religion
ISBN	9786613022417 0-8223-3608-1 1-283-02241-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell -- The eternal return of conversion: Christianity as contested domain in highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris -- Renewable icons: concepts of religious power in a fishing village in South India / Cecilia Busby -- Possession and confession: affliction and sacred power in colonial and contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse -- Reading as gift and writing as theft / Fenella Cannell -- Materializing the self: words and gifts in the construction of charismatic Protestant identity / Simon Coleman -- The effectiveness of ritual / Christina Toren -- Forgetting conversion: the Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro lived world / Peter Gow -- The Bible meets the idol: writing and conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford -- Scripture study as normal science: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller -- Appropriated and monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse -- Epilogue: anxious transcendence / Webb Keane.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910780896903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2024]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (478 p.) : 6 b&w figures
Disciplina	323.44/3
Collana	Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life
Soggetto topico	Freedom of speech Freedom of speech - History Freedom of speech - Moral and ethical aspects Freedom of speech - Political aspects LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
ISBN	9781487552978 1487552971 9781487550226 1487550227
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Anthropologies of Free Speech -- PART ONE Traditions and Comparisons -- 1 Comparing Freedoms: “Liberal Freedom of Speech” in Frontal and Lateral Perspective -- 2 When Speech Isn’t Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle -- 3 Speaking for Oneself: Language Reform and the Confucian Legacy in Late Colonial Vietnam -- 4 Risking Speech in Islam -- 5 Ten-and-a-Half Seconds of God’s Silence: Mormon Parrhesia in the Time of Donald Trump -- 6 Fascism, Real or Stuffed: Ordinary Scepticism at Mussolini’s Grave -- 7 The Imaginative Power of Language in the Vacated Space of “Free Speech” in Putin-Era Russia -- PART TWO Extending the Politics of Free Speech -- 8 Designing Limits on Public Speaking: The Case of Hungary -- 9 Expression Is Transaction: Talk, Freedom, and Authority when Egalitarians Embrace the State -- 10 Dissent, Hierarchy, and Value Creation: Liberalism and the Problem of Critique -- 11 The People’s Radio between Populism and Bullshit -- 12 Environments for Expression on Palestine: Fields, Fear, and the Politics of Movement -- PART THREE Narrating, Witnessing, Troubling -- 13 Freedom of Speech in Jeju Shamanism -- 14 Truth of War: Immersive Fiction Reading and Public Modes of Remembrance in an English Literary Society -- 15 As It Were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy, and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising -- 16 Historical Vertigo: Art, Censorship, and the Contested History of Bangladesh -- PART FOUR Therapies, Individual and Collective -- 17 Free Speech, without Listening? Liberalism and the Problem of Reception -- 18 An American Canard: The Freedom of (Therapeutic) Speech -- 19 Therapeutic Politics and the Performance of Reparation: A Dialogical Approach to Mental Health Care in the UK -- 20 Secrecy, Curse, Psychiatrist, Saint: Scandals of Sexuality and Censorship in Global/Indian Publics -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Record Nr.	UNISA-996639663603316