Anthropology of Religion: The Basics The Basics The Basics Series
Auteur : Bielo James
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.
Chapter 1: What is "Religion"?
Chapter 2: Doing Religious Ethnography
Chapter 3: Bodies, Words, and Things
Chapter 4: In Time, In Place
Chapter 5: Who Do You Trust?
Chapter 6: Going Global
James S. Bielo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Miami University, Ohio, USA.
Date de parution : 03-2015
12.9x19.8 cm
Date de parution : 03-2015
12.9x19.8 cm
Thèmes d’Anthropology of Religion: The Basics :
Mots-clés :
Vice Versa; African Hebrew Israelites; human religiosity; Beta Israel; Ritual; Navajo Creation Story; Magic; Ivory Coast; Witchcraft; Language Ideology; Myth; American Indian Religious Freedom Act; Secularism; Class Colleagues; Shamanism; Religious Ethnography; research problems; Methodological Atheism; religious phenomenon; Diasporic Religion; ethnographic; Rasta Communities; historical; Methodological Agnosticism; religion; spirituality; and secularism; Transnational Religion; religion in the public sphere; Religious Mediation; the human body; Sierra Leonean Muslims; language; Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh; materiality; Religious Globalization; embodied practice; Ritual Peyote; gender; Diasporic Hinduism; sexuality; Pentecostal Women; food; Cosmological Orientation; dress; Soul Food; natural elements; Celestial Marriage; landscape; Contested Places; sacred space; fashioned artifacts; Vodou alters; agency; God; Angels; Demons; Ancestors; evil spirits; ghosts; spirit possession; altered states; divination; healing; role of ritual; lived religion; rituals of dramatic alterity; pilgrimage; rites of passage; charisma; authority; new religious movements; religious change; ultimacy; morality; death; transcendence; methodological skepticism; methodological ludism