A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology)
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry.
- Presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays exploring the wide variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world
- Explores a broad range of topics including the ‘perspectivism’ debate, the rise of religious nationalism, reflections on religion and new media, religion and politics, and ideas of self and gender in relation to religious belief
- Includes examples drawn from different religious traditions and from several regions of the world
- Features newly-commissioned articles reflecting the most up-to-date research and critical thinking in the field, written by an international team of leading scholars
- Adds immeasurably to our understanding of the complex relationships between religion, culture, society, and the individual in today’s world
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- Moves away from trying to define what religion is to analyzing how religion is lived, felt, and practiced as a fundamental human condition.
- Shifts from the “Protestant bias” (which focuses on internal belief and dogma) toward the materiality and performance of religion.
- Challenges the modern Western assumption that “Religion” and “The Secular” are two separate, neatly walled-off boxes.
- What Is “Religion” for Anthropology?
- And What Has Anthropology Brought to “Religion”? - Michael Lambek
- Presence, Attachment, Origin: Ontologies of “Incarnates” - Philippe Descola
- The Dynamic Reproduction of Hunter-Gatherers’ Ontologies and Values - Sylvie Poirier
- Cohabiting an Interreligious Milieu: Reflections on Religious Diversity - Veena Das
- Religious and Legal Particularism and Universality - Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
- Are Ancestors Dead? - Rita Astuti and Maurice Bloch
- Coping with Religious Diversity: Incommensurability and Other Perspectives - Eva Spies
- Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion - Michael Lambek
- Religion and the Truth of Being - Paul Stoller
- Ethics - James Laidlaw
- The Social and Political Theory of the Soul - Heonik Kwon
- Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West - Fenella Cannell
- The Work of Memory: Ritual Laments of the Dead and Korea’s Cheju Massacre - Seong-nae Kim
- The Globalization of Pentecostalism and the Limits of Globalization - Girish Daswani
- Food, Life, and Material Religion in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity - Tom Boylston
- Trading with God: Islam, Calculation, Excess - Amira Mittermaier
- Ritual Remains: Studying Contemporary Pilgrimage - Simon Coleman
- Mediation and Immediacy: Sensational Forms, Semiotic Ideologies, and the Question of the Medium - Birgit Meyer
- Translating God’s Words - Wendy James
- Christianity as a Polemical Concept - Pamela E. Klassen
- Reconfiguring Humanity in Amazonia: Christianity and Change - Aparecida Vilaça
- Language in Christian Conversion - William F. Hanks
- Canonizing Soviet Pasts in Contemporary Russia: The Case of Saint Matrona of Moscow - Jeanne Kormina
- Reflections on Death, Religion, Identity, and the Anthropology of Religion - Ellen Badone
- Spirits and Selves Revisited: Zār and Islam in Northern Sudan - Janice Boddy
- The Political Landscape of Early State Religions - Edward Swenson
- A Syariah Judiciary as a Global Assemblage: Islamization and Beyond in a Southeast Asian Context - Michael G. Peletz
- The Catholicization of Neoliberalism - Andrea Muehlebach
- The Sacred and the City: Modernity, Religion, and the Urban Form in Central Africa - Filip De Boeck