On the Margins of ReligionFrances Pine, João de Pina-Cabral Berghahn Books, 2008 - 286 páginas 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. |
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Modern Spiritualism Psychical Research | 13 |
Christianity Ethnographic | 39 |
African Christians Spirituality | 61 |
Temple Building and the Recreation | 81 |
Tolerance Commitment | 97 |
Revival of Buddhist Royal Family Commemorative Ritual in Laos | 115 |
The Organisation of Extravagance | 135 |
Religious Practice on the Margins | 153 |
Conversion to the Brahma Kumaris | 169 |
Dynamics of Religious | 187 |
Geomancy Politics and Colonial Encounters in Rural Hong Kong | 205 |
The Sacrifices of Modernity in a Sovietbuilt Steel Town | 233 |
Notes on Contributors | 263 |