On the Margins of Religion.
Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Ethnology
B India / Temple construction |
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Collection of essays
B Religion and sociology B Socioeconomic change B Religious sociology B Globalization B Electronic books B Religiosity B Anthropology of religion |
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| Summary: | Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalisation of the twenty-first century. Their ethnographies highlight the embodiment of religion and its location in landscapes, built spaces and religious sites which may be contested, physically or ideologically, or encased in memory and often in silence. Taken together, they show the importance of religion as a resource to the believers: a source of solace, spiritual comfort and self-willed submission. Title page-On the margins of religion -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Ch 1-On the margins: an introduction -- Part I-Anthropology and religion -- Ch 2-Homeless spirits -- Ch 3-The abominations of anthropology -- Part II-Space and religious marginality -- Ch 4-Religious logistics -- Ch 5-Contested spaces -- Ch 6-Bosnian neighbourhoods revisited -- Part III-Power and relative centrality -- Ch 7-Revival of Buddhist royal family commemorative ritual in Laos -- Ch 8-Centres and margins -- Part IV-Religious options and identitary claims -- Ch 9-Alliens and subordinates -- Ch 10-On celibate marriages -- Part V-modernity and the transmission of religion -- Ch 11-Elder's cathedrals and children's marbles -- Ch 12-Geomancy, politics and colonial encounters in Rural Hong Kong -- Ch 13-The sacrifices of modernity in a Soviet-built steel town in central India -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0857450115 |