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American Indian Religious Freedom Act
Ancestors
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Angels
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Celestial Marriage
charisma
Class Colleagues
Contested Places
Cosmological Orientation
death
Demons
Diasporic Hinduism
Diasporic Religion
divination
dress
embodied practice
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evil spirits
fashioned artifacts
food
gender
ghosts
God
healing
historical
human religiosity
Ivory Coast
landscape
language
Language Ideology
lived religion
Magic
materiality
Methodological Agnosticism
Methodological Atheism
methodological ludism
methodological skepticism
morality
Myth
natural elements
Navajo Creation Story
new religious movements
Pentecostal Women
pilgrimage
Rasta Communities
religion
religion in the public sphere
religious change
Religious Ethnography
Religious Globalization
Religious Mediation
religious phenomenon
research problems
rites of passage
Ritual
Ritual Peyote
rituals of dramatic alterity
role of ritual
sacred space
Secularism
sexuality
Shamanism
Sierra Leonean Muslims
Soul Food
spirit possession
spirituality
the human body
transcendence
Transnational Religion
ultimacy
Vice Versa
Vodou alters
Witchcraft
Product details
- ISBN 9780415731256
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 23 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples to address not only what is studied by anthropologists of religion, but how such studies are approached. It addresses questions such as:
- How do human agents interact with gods and spirits?
- What is the nature of doing religious ethnography?
- Can the immaterial be embodied in the body, language and material objects?
- What is the role of ritual, time, and place in religion?
- Why is charisma important for religious movements?
- How do global processes interact with religions?
With international case studies from a range of religious traditions, suggestions for further reading, and inventive reflection boxes, Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an essential read for students approaching the subject for the first time.
James S. Bielo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Miami University, Ohio, USA.
