Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004287051 |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004287051 |
Author | : W.E.A. Van Beek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789401749039 |
Author | : Alice Beck Kehoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Kehoe (anthropology, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) seeks to inoculate her students against the mushy thinking she finds concerning shamans and shamanism. She traces the misinformation to a sensational mid-20th-century French tome by which expatriate Romanian Mircea Eliade hoped to acquire a reputation and a place in a European or American university. (He succeeded.) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Jan Baal |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : |
Burridge, K.O.L. Other peoples' religions are absurd.--Baaren, Th. P. van. Religions of faction and community-religions.--Hoens, D.J. Rites of initiation.--Köbben, A.J.F. Opportunism in religious behavior.--Beek, W.E.A. van. The religion of everyday life.--Lévi-Strauss, Cl. Histoire d'une structure.--Pouwer, J. Structural history.--Nieuwenhuijsen, J.W. van & Nieuwenhuijsen-Riedeman, C.H. van Eclipses as omens of death.--Berndt, R.M. Life in death.--Leeden, A.C. van der. Nunggubuyu aboriginals and Marind-Anim.--Schoorl, J.W. Salvation movements among the Muyu-Papuas of West-Irian.--Ploeg, A. Wok kako and wok bisnis.--Thoden van Velzen, H.U.E. & Wetering, W. van. On the political impact of a prophetic movement in Surinam.--Locher, G.W. Myth, ideology and changing society.--Waardenburg, J.D.J. Religion and the Dutch tribe.--Vrijhof, P.H. Religion and Christian faith.
Author | : Nils Ole Bubandt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136668640 |
Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of secularism/secularity and examine concrete ethnographic cases in order to further the theoretical discussion. Whereas Taylor’s magisterial work draws up the conditions and problems of a belief in God in Western modernity, it leaves unexplored the challenges posed by the spiritual in modernity outside of the North Atlantic rim. This anthology seeks to begin that task. It does so by suggesting that the kind of secularity described by Taylor is only one amongst others. By attending to the shifting relationship between proper religion and ‘bad faiths’; between politically valorised and embarrassing spiritual phenomena; between the new visibilities and silences of magic, ancestors, and religion in democratic politics, this book seeks to outline the particular formations of secularism that have become possible in Asia from China to Indonesia and from Bahrain to Timor-Leste. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian religion, politics and anthropology.
Author | : American Anthropological Association. Meeting |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780761806615 |
The papers in this volume seek to map out the broad areas of anthropology and inspire others to follow with their own contributions.
Author | : Vincanne Adams |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781845459741 |
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.
Author | : Joshua R. Farris |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2016-11-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317015045 |
Recent research in the philosophy of religion, anthropology, and philosophy of mind has prompted the need for a more integrated, comprehensive, and systematic theology of human nature. This project constructively develops a theological accounting of human persons by drawing from a Cartesian (as a term of art) model of anthropology, which is motivated by a long tradition. As was common among patristics, medievals, and Reformed Scholastics, Farris draws from philosophical resources to articulate Christian doctrine as he approaches theological anthropology. Exploring a substance dualism model, the author highlights relevant theological texts and passages of Scripture, arguing that this model accounts for doctrinal essentials concerning theological anthropology. While Farris is not explicitly interested in thorough critique of materialist ontology, he notes some of the significant problems associated with it. Rather, the present project is an attempt to revitalize the resources found in Cartesianism by responding to some common worries associated with it.
Author | : Bruce Lincoln |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-07-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226035166 |
Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion—historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their stories are endowed with sacred origins and authority. In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars, Lincoln assembles a collection of essays that both illustrates and reveals the benefits of his methodology, making a case for a critical religious studies that starts with skepticism but is neither cynical nor crude. The book begins with Lincoln’s “Theses on Method” and ends with “The (Un)discipline of Religious Studies,” in which he unsparingly considers the failings of uncritical and nonhistorical approaches to the study of religions. In between, Lincoln presents new examinations of problems in ancient religions and relates these cases to larger comparative themes. While bringing to light important features of the formation of pantheons and the constructions of demons, chaos, and the dead, Lincoln demonstrates that historians of religions should take religious things—inspired scriptures, sacred centers, salvific rites, communities graced by divine favor—as the theories of interested humans that shape perception, community, and experiences. As he shows, it is for their terrestrial influence, and not their sacred origins, that religious phenomena merit consideration by the historian. Tackling many questions central to religious study, Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars will be a touchstone for the history of religions in the twenty-first century.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2016-09-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004326154 |
In Religion, Migration and Identity scholars from various disciplines explore issues related to identity and religion, that people - individually and communally -, encounter when affected by migration dynamics; the volume foregrounds methodology as its main concern.