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Written by an experienced teacher, this basic introduction to the anthropology of religion explores key contemporary issues such as: definitions, theories, beliefs, symbols and language, and behaviour. The second part of the book analyzes: religion in the modern world, violence, fundamentalism, key world religions and new religious movements. Unlike other introductions which have tended to focus solely on traditional anthropological areas, this book also shows how to apply an anthropological approach to contemporary world religions, reflecting broader trends.Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this is the perfect resource for students.
Philosophical anthropology --- Religious studies --- Anthropology of religion. --- Anthropologie religieuse --- Anthropology of religion --- 291 --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- anthropology of religion --- religion --- anthropology --- ethnography --- culture --- contemporary world religions --- violence --- fundamentalism --- belief --- symbolism --- language --- ritual --- myth --- morality --- secularization --- new religious movements
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Biological anthropology. Palaeoanthropology --- Religious studies --- Anthropologie religieuse --- Anthropology of religion --- Godsdienst [Prehistorische ] --- Godsdienst--Antropologie --- Godsdienstige antropologie --- Prehistoric religion --- Prehistorische godsdienst --- Religieuze antropologie --- Religion [Prehistoric ] --- Religion préhistorique --- Religion--Anthropologie --- Religious anthropology --- 574 --- 600.1 --- Ontwikkelingspsychologie --- Religie
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The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as "the Christians who don't read the Bible." They claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God "live and direct" from the Holy Spirit. In this insightful and sensitive historical ethnography, Matthew Engelke documents how this rejection of scripture speaks to longstanding concerns within Christianity over mediation and authority. The Bible, of course, has been a key medium through which Christians have recognized God's presence. But the apostolics perceive scripture as an unnecessary, even dangerous, mediator. For them, the materiality of the Bible marks a distance from the divine and prohibits the realization of a live and direct faith. Situating the Masowe case within a broad comparative framework, Engelke shows how their rejection of textual authority poses a problem of presence-which is to say, how the religious subject defines, and claims to construct, a relationship with the spiritual world through the semiotic potentials of language, actions, and objects. Written in a lively and accessible style, A Problem of Presence makes important contributions to the anthropology of Christianity, the history of religions in Africa, semiotics, and material culture studies.
Masowe, Johane. --- Masowe weChishanu Church. --- Friday Masowe Church --- #SBIB:316.331H381 --- #SBIB:316.331H520 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Geografische spreiding van de godsdiensten: Afrika --- Geloofsopvattingen, houdingen en religieuze cultuur: algemeen --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Religion. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- africa. --- anthropologists. --- apostolics. --- bible. --- christianity. --- church history. --- comparative religion. --- demographic studies. --- divine union. --- ethnographers. --- faith and spirituality. --- friday masowe. --- global christians. --- gods presence. --- historical ethnography. --- holy spirit. --- mediation. --- nonfiction. --- personal authority. --- religious anthropology. --- religious authority. --- religious faith. --- religious practices. --- religious scholars. --- religious studies. --- scriptures. --- semiotics. --- spiritual world. --- world religions. --- zimbabwe.
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In 1969, young Kirin Narayan's older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone- especially Kirin, who adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother. A touching, funny, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints traces the reverberations of Rahoul's spiritual journey through the entire family. As their beachside Bombay home becomes a crossroads for Westerners seeking Eastern enlightenment, Kirin's sari-wearing American mother wholeheartedly embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son's spiritual quest as her own. Her Indian father, however, coins the term "urug"-guru spelled backward-to mock these seekers, while young Kirin, surrounded by radiant holy men, parents drifting apart, and a motley of young, often eccentric Westerners, is left to find her own answers. Deftly recreating the turbulent emotional world of her bicultural adolescence, but overlaying it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, Narayan presents a large, rambunctious cast of quirky characters. Throughout, she brings to life not just a family but also a time when just about everyone, it seemed, was consumed by some sort of spiritual quest. "A lovely book about the author's youth in Bombay, India. . . . The family home becomes a magnet for truth-seekers, and Narayan is there to affectionately document all of it."-Body + Soul "Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay."-William Grimes, New York Times
Women anthropologists --- Anthropology of religion --- Families --- Hinduism and culture --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Anthropologists, Women --- Anthropologists --- Women social scientists --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Narayan, Kirin. --- Mumbai (India) --- Asumumbay (India) --- Numbai (India) --- Bombay (India) --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs. --- memoir, enlightenment, guru, religion, spirituality, family, brother, siblings, bombay, india, eastern philosophy, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, pilgrimage, ashram, holy men, coming of age, spiritual quest, youth, childhood, adolescence, anthropology, sociology, hinduism, mumbai, seeking, journey, growth, gods, female authors, indian women, gender, sister.
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Blacks --- Syncretism (Religion) --- Christianity --- Sects --- Prophets --- Noirs --- Syncrétisme --- Christianisme --- Sectes --- Prophètes --- Religion --- History. --- Histoire --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Afrique subsaharienne --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- History --- Church history --- Colonial Africa --- Religious Anthropology --- Christian Sects --- 18th-21st Century --- Syncrétisme --- Prophètes --- Black people --- Religion. --- Syncretism (Religion) - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History --- Christianity - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Sects - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History --- Prophets - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History --- Blacks - Religion - History --- Africa, Sub-Saharan - Church history --- l'Afrique --- sectes --- prophètes --- religion --- églises-afro-chrétiennes --- hérésie --- Dona Béatrice --- Nongqawuse la prophétesse --- Matsoua le syndicaliste --- Jospeh Kony --- l'Armée de résistance du Seigneur --- Simon Kimbangu --- les Dix Commandements de Dieu --- le prophète Harris --- la secte des Lumpa --- Alice Lakwena --- églises sionistes --- Chérubins --- Séraphins --- le christianisme céleste
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