A reader in the anthropology of religion.
A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by ‘religion’...
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Malden (MA) :
Blackwell Pub.,
2008.
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| Izdaja: | 2nd ed. |
| Serija: | Blackwell anthologies in social & cultural anthropology ;
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| Online dostop: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Kazalo:
- Preface to Second Edition
- General Introduction
- Part I. The Context of Understanding and Debate
- Opening Frameworks : Introduction
- Religion in Primitive Culture / Edward Burnett Tylor
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life / Emile Durkheim
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber
- Religion as a Cultural System / Clifford Geertz
- Skeptical Rejoinders
- Introduction
- Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough / Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Religion, Totemism and Symbolism / W. E. H. Stanner
- Remarks on the Verb “To Believe” / Jean Pouillon
- Christians as Believers / Malcolm Ruel
- The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category / Talal Asad
- Part II. Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds
- Signs and Symbols
- Introduction
- The Logic of Signs and Symbols / Susanne K. Langer
- The Problem of Symbols / E. E. Evans-Pritchard
- On Key Symbols / Sherry B. Ortner
- The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol / Eric R. Wolf
- Structure, Function, and Interpretation
- Introduction
- Myth in Primitive Psychology / Bronislaw Malinowski
- Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture / Marshall Sahlins
- Land Animals, Pure and Impure / Mary Douglas
- A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo / Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre / Alton L. Becker
- Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder
- Introduction
- The Winnebago Trickster Figure / Paul Radin
- Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief / Raymond C. Kelly
- The Politics and Poetics of Transgression / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White
- Conceptualizing the Cosmos : Introduction
- Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual / Alfred Gell
- Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
- Part III. Praxis: Religious Action
- The Movement in Ritual: Emergence
- Introduction
- The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action / Godfrey Lienhardt
- Form and Meaning of Magical Acts / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
- Liminality and Communitas / Victor Turner
- Gender, Subjectivity, and the Body
- Introduction
- “Jewish Comes Up in You from the Roots” / Barbara Myerhoff
- Fate in Relation to the Social Structure / Meyer Fortes
- Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience / Gananath Obeyesekere
- Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance / Janice Boddy
- The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination / Dennis Tedlock
- What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order
- Introduction
- The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process / Maurice Bloch
- Enactments of Meaning / Roy A. Rappaport
- Part IV. Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change
- Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict
- Introduction
- New Heaven, New Earth / Kenelm Burridge
- The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil’s Labor and the Baptism of Money / Michael Taussig
- The Colonization of Consciousness / John and Jean Comaroff
- Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion / Susan F. Harding
- On Being Shege in Kinshasa: Children, the Occult and the Street / Filip De Boeck
- Religious Ethics and Politics in the State, Public Sphere, and Transnational Scene
- Introduction
- Civil Religion in America / Robert N. Bellah
- Shamanic Practices and the State in Northern Asia: Views from the Center and Periphery / Caroline Humphrey
- “Using the Past to Negate the Present”: Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
- Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo / Charles Hirschkind
- Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains / Anne Vallely
- Candomblé in Pink, Green and Black: Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian Religious Heritage in the Public Sphere of Salvador, Bahia / Mattijs van de Port
- Martyr vs. Martyr: The Sacred Language of Violence / Galit Hasan-Rokem
- Afterword
- Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other / Stephan Palmié
- Part V. Research Tools
- A Guide to the Literature
- Bibliography
- Index.