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Conjuring hope : magic and healing in contemporary Russia
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ISBN: 9781845450939 1845450930 9781845450571 1845450574 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn,

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Conjuring hope : magic and healing in contemporary Russia
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ISBN: 1782384715 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the experience of living that makes magic logical. By following people''s own interpretations of the work of magic, the author succeeds in unraveling the logic of local practice and local understanding of affliction, commonly used to diagnose the experiences of illness and misfortune.


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ISBN: 9781782384717 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Ritual in its own right : exploring the dynamics of transformation
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ISBN: 1845450515 9781845450519 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,

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"Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics."--BOOK JACKET.


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Religion, politics, and globalization : anthropological approaches
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ISBN: 9781845457716 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,


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Ritual in its own right : exploring the dynamics of transformation
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ISBN: 0857458884 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect


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Religion, Politics, and Globalization
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ISBN: 9781845455460 1845455460 9781845536251 1845536258 9781845536268 1845536266 9781845538668 1845538668 9781845457716 1845457714 9781845457716 0857459252 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Oxford

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While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The complex connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes, are central themes explored in this volume by leading scholars in the field of religion. Does the holism of numerous past and present day cosmologies mean that religions with their holistic orientations are integral to human existence? What happens when political ideologies and projects are framed as transcendent


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Ritual in Its Own Right
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ISBN: 9780857458889 0857458884 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Oxford

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On the Margins of Religion

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