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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 Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
Disciplina: 128
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Soggetto topico: Philosophical anthropology
Cultural pluralism
Religion
Toleration
Altri autori: JamesWendy  
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-84087-X
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.: 9910814372603321
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