Across the boundaries of belief : contemporary issues in the anthropology of religion
Title:
Across the boundaries of belief : contemporary issues in the anthropology of religion
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[edited by] Morton Klass, Maxine Weisgrau.
Publication Information:
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 416 pages)
ISBN:
9781429491099
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Abstract:
"In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world sources, 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 large cultural matrix by drawing upon literature that exhibits an interdisciplinary as well as global approach."--Jacket.
Local Note:
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-405) and index.
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Contents:
Anthropologists versus missionaries / Claude E. Stipe -- From Tupã to the land without evil / Judith Shapiro -- Shamanism and Christianity / Sergei Kan -- Reflections on Christianity in China / Morton H. Fried -- Menstruation and reproduction / Marla N. Powers -- Domestication of religion / Susan Sered -- Becoming a mujercita / Valentina Napolitano -- Erotic anthropology / Deborah A. Elliston -- Exorcists, psychiatrists, and the problems of possession in Northwest Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp -- Woman who wanted to be her father / Yoram Bilu -- Hypnosis and trance induction in the surgeries of Brazilian spiritist healer-mediums / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Pockets full of mistakes / Douglas Hollan -- Bandits, beggars, and ghosts / Robert P. Weller -- Muslim identity and secularism in contemporary Turkey / Emelie A. Olson -- Interpretation of politics / Peter M. Whiteley -- Cargoism in Irian Jaya today / Benny Giay and Jan A. Godschalk -- Transnational popular culture and the global spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement / Neil J. Savishinsky -- On founders and followers / Benton Johnson -- Convicted by the Holy Spirit / Susan F. Harding.
Technical Details:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Print version record.