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anthropology of religion
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comparative religious systems
Deborah A. Elliston
Domestic Religion
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Extreme Behavioral Responses
Fantasy Prone
Fifteenth Birthday
Fundamental Baptist
gendered ritual practices
Good Life
Holy Man
homosexuality
Irian Jaya
Ivory Coast
Jan A. Godschalk
Judith Shapiro
Lesley A. Sharp
Lonely Ghosts
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Marla N. Powers
Maxine Weisgrau
Melanesian Societies
Morton H. Fried
Neil J. Savishinsky
Peter M. Whiteley
possession
postcolonial religious change
practices
Rabbi Shalom
Rastafarian Movement
Reggae Music
religion social transformation research
religious syncretism analysis
ritualized
Ritualized Homosexuality
Robert P. Weller
Sabbatai Sevi
semen
Semen Practices
Sergei Kan
Sidney M. Greenfield
Smoke Ganja
spirit
spirits
states
Susan F. Harding
Susan M. Kenyon
Susan Sered
Tana Toraja
Tlingit Culture
trance and possession studies
Universal Salvation
Valentina Napolitano
World War Ii Period
Yoram Bilu
Young Man
zar
Zar Spirits
Product details
- ISBN 9780367314323
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world areas, contemporary theoretical issues and conflicts in the anthropological study of religion are explored and illustrated. The editors present these anthropological writings on religion within a larger cultural matrix by drawing upon literature exhibiting an interdisciplinary as well as global approach.The book examines religion within social, political, and historical contexts to confront theoretical and methodological questions that apply across time and borders. How do belief systems respond to conquest and the imposition of foreign values, beliefs, and practices? What happens to religion when the colonial rulers depart? What are the relationships between gender, sexuality, and religious rules and restrictions? How is gender constructed and maintained within ideological systems? How do the beliefs and practices underlying possession and trance deal with illness and death, and how do they respond to science and other belief systems? Is religion a tool or weapon of the state?or an enemy of the people? And how does religion, often erroneously perceived as changeless and constant, respond to the pressures and technologies of this rapidly changing world? Across the Boundaries of Belief examines these issues and many others.The readings derive from interdisciplinary as well as global literature, and the titles of the sections reflect the contexts within which religion is explored and portrayed in this collection: ?Colonialism and the Post-Colonial Legacy,? ?Gender and Sexuality,? ?The Healing Touch and Altered States,? ?Religion and the State,? and ?Changes and Continuities.? The book will help students and general readers to perceive religion as a pan-human institution embedded in social structures, political systems, and historical contexts.
Morton Klass is professor of anthropology at Barnard College. | Maxine Weisgrau
