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Religions in Practice : An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion
ISBN: 9780205578610 | 0205578616
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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This widely used textbook offers a unique perspective on how people engage in everyday religious practices, such as prayer, sacrifice, initiation, and healing, and it investigates broad-scale issues of transnationalism, gender, and religious laws. No other text examines the full spectrum of religions, from small-scale societies to full-blown "world religious movements." The in-depth treatment of Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity is of particular interest to students, and is easily expanded to include field projects directly related to material ... MORE
| Preface | |
| Studying Religion Through Practice | |
| What is ldquo;Religionrdquo;? | |
| An Anthropological Approach to Religion | |
| Practices, Contexts, Diversity | |
| Social Theory in the Anthropology of Religion | |
| Religion as Intellectual Activity | |
| Religions in Social Life | |
| The Psychology of Religion | |
| Ideas and Practices of ld... MORE | |
| Western Ideas of Religion | |
| Other Religions, Other Models | |
| Combining Religious Practices in Japan | |
| Ritual and the Shaping of Emotions | |
| Rites of Passage | |
| Initiation, Secrecy, and Fear | |
| Death Ritual and the Social Order | |
| Grief and Ritual Form | |
| Transforming Selves | |
| Gender and Anthropology Creating Gender through Ritual | |
| Producing a Pious Female Self Converting to a New Faith | |
| Extending our Powers: Magic and Healing | |
| Magic, Patterns, and Causes | |
| Explaining Misfortune | |
| The New Age | |
| Wicca or Modern Witchcraft | |
| Science and Religion | |
| Does Prayer Heal? | |
| Narrative and Pain Relief | |
| Does Evolution Explain Religion Can Creationists Teach Evolution? | |
| Sorcery, Witchcraft and Modernity | |
| La Sorcellerie in Cameroon | |
| Azande Oracles | |
| Sorcery and Modernity | |
| Witchcraft as Satan versus God | |
| Worship and Hierarchy | |
| Sacrafice, Offerings, and Deities Bathing at Benareas Muslim-Hindu Violence | |
| Images and Faith: Focus on Worldwide Catholicism | |
| Relics and Images in Catholicism Mary and Marys in European Societies | |
| Sacred Speech and Divine Power | |
| The Qur'acirc;n as Recitation of God's Speech | |
| The Creative Power of Navajo Speech and Song | |
| Speech and Grace in Protestant Churches | |
| Transnational Diaspora Religions | |
| Transnational and Diasporic Religions | |
| The Jewish Diaspora: History and Ritual Transnational Religion | |
| Africa and Brazil across the Atlantic Mary in Mesoamerica South Asians Overseas | |
| Focus on Muslims in Europe | |
| Migration and Transnational Ties Transnational Islam in Three Senses Can European Societies be Muslim? | |
| Religion, Radicalism, and Violence | |
| Cults, Sects, and Violence | |
| Explaining Where Violence Occurred: The Hindu-Muslim Case Struggle and Authority in Islam Recruitment to Terrorism 1 | |
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