Food Sex and Strangers Understanding Religion as Everyday Life 1st Edition by Graham Harvey ISBN 1317546326 9781317546320

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ISBN 10: 1317546326 
ISBN 13: 9781317546320
Author: Graham Harvey

Religion is more than a matter of worshipping a deity or spirit. For many people, religion pervades every part of their lives and is not separated off into some purely private and personal realm. Religion is integral to many people’s relationship with the wider world, an aspect of their dwelling among other beings – both human and other-than-human – and something manifested in the everyday world of eating food, having sex and fearing strangers. “Food, Sex and Strangers” offers alternative ways of thinking about what religion involves and how we might better understand it. Drawing on studies of contemporary religions, especially among indigenous peoples, the book argues that religion serves to maintain and enhance human relationships in and with the larger-than-human world. Fundamentally, religion can be better understood through the ways we negotiate our lives than in affirmations of belief – and it is best seen when people engage in intimate acts with themselves and others.

Food Sex and Strangers Understanding Religion as Everyday Life 1st Table of contents:

1 Of god and goats
Strands of the Argument
Elsewhere
Limbering Up for the Journey
Exercise 1: walking
Exercise 2: drawing what is not a chair
Exercise 3: describing not-copies of things
Exercise 4: pointing to the past
Two Problems in Search of a Solution
Why is Religion Different to Cooking?
Outlining the Chapters
2 Religioning elsewhere
Religioning from Apuleius to Zuni
Getting Less Random
3 Christianity is not a religion
Peculiar Believing
Performing and Reforming Believing
Belief in World Religions
Believing in Belief
Looking for a Religion Called Christianity
Losing Faith in Religion
4 Talking like a pirate
Pastafarian Pirates
Invisible Pink Unicorn, Jedi and Sith
What is not Sacred?
Sacred Noun and Adjective
Seeking Divinity and Taking Land
God in the Academy
Secularized Surveillance
Beyond Critique
5 Real world
Being Prey (Not Separate)
Unround World and the Yuk Factor
Bodymind Place
Peter Rabbit and Elbow Crooks
Mars, America and Other Bodies
Intra-Acting Ants and Spiders
Liquid Reality
Ritual Experimentation
Imagining Fish and Guests
Sunrise World
Real World Religion
Beyond Descartes
6 Doing violence with impunity
Trees and Tubers
Cosmic Genealogy
Making Room, Living Space
Intimate Eating
Gift and Restraints
Tradition/Korero Tahito
Restoring Relations and Rivers
Bronze Princess in Waikiki
Bahá’ís, Catholics and Latter Day Saints
When a Tree Falls
7 Respecting relations
Kitpu!
The Solidarity of Kin
Catching the Meaning of Thunder
Totems
Cannibals and Medicine People
Silence in the Woods
Bimaadiziwin
Sage Picking
8 Things full of meaning
Animist Materialism
Making Deities
Divining and Defining
Sacrifice, Offering, Gift and Restraint
Prepossessing Deities
Visiting Esu, Materializing Religion
9 Purity and pilgrimages
Rabbi Shimon’s Hillula
Of Crustaceans and Crabs
Imagining a Temple, Texting Intimacy
Purity and Danger
Counting Barley and Avoiding the Dead
What Does a Non-Religious Israeli Look Like?
10 Enchantment and emplacement
Sources and Trajectories
Performing Enchantment
Syncretism
Supermarkets
Inventing Tradition
Ethnic, Elective and Ethical Religions
Pagan Studies
11 Christians do religion like other people
Contrary Indicators
Negotiating Alterities
Surveillance and Abstinence
Synergy, Migration and Resistance
Vernacular and Vicarious Religion
Belief-Ers
Christianity as Materiality
Vantage Points
12 Religion is etiquette in the real world
Researching Delusions
Turning the Tables
Real World Academia
Bracketing Aside
Looking Again at Lived Religion
Emergent Materials for a Definition
Food, Sex and Strangers: an Experiment

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