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"Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The product of collaborative research by an American anthropologist and a Vietnamese folklorist, the work exp…
A new anthropology of Islam
by Bowen, John R., (John Richard)
fromNew departures in anthropology
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Type: Book
"In this powerful but accessible new study John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelati…
A new anthropology of Islam
by Bowen, John R., (John Richard)
fromNew departures in anthropology
0
Type: Book
"In this powerful but accessible new study John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelati…
In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to receive the Gospel, they also h…
On the cult of the factish gods -- What is iconoclash? or is there a world beyond the image wars? -- "Thou shalt not freeze frame" or how not to misunderstand the science and religion debate.
Introduction: The iconography of suffering -- Christ appeared : material religion and the conquest of Mexico -- Performance and penance : the Cristo and Christian evangelization -- The Cristo comes to life : lived religion in colonial Mexico City -- Repatriation : Christ comes a…