On the Margins of Religion 1st Edition by Frances Pine, Joao de Pina Cabral ISBN 0857450115 9780857450111

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ISBN 10: 0857450115

ISBN 13: 9780857450111 

Author: Frances Pine; João de Pina-Cabral

Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalisation of the twenty-first century. Their ethnographies highlight the embodiment of religion and its location in landscapes, built spaces and religious sites which may be contested, physically or ideologically, or encased in memory and often in silence. Taken together, they show the importance of religion as a resource to the believers: a source of solace, spiritual comfort and self-willed submission.

Table of contents:

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. On the Margins: An Introduction
João de Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine

Part I: Anthropology and Religion
2. Homeless Spirits: Modern Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Anthropology of Religion in the Late Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries
João Vasconcelos
3. The Abominations of Anthropology: Christianity. Ethnographic
Taboos and the Meanings of ‘Science’
Simon Coleman

Part II: Space and Religious Marginality
4. Religious Logistics: African Christians, Spirituality and Transportation
Thomas Kirsch
5. Contested Spaces: Temple Building and the Re-creation of Religious Boundaries in Contemporary Urban India
Ursula Rao
6. Bosnian Neighbourhoods Revisited: Tolerance. Commitment and Komšiluk in Sarajevo
Cornelia Sorabji

Part III: Power and Relative Centrality
7. Revival of Buddhist Royal Family Commemorative Ritual in Laos
Grant Evans
8. Centres and Margins: The Organisation of Extravagance as Self-government in China.
Stephan Feuchtwang

Part IV: Religious Options and Identitary Claims
9. Allies and Subordinates: Religious Practice on the Margins between Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern Siberia
Galina Lindquist
10. On Celibate Marriages: Conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland
Agnieszka Kościańska

Part V: Modernity and the Transmission of Religion
11. Elders’ Cathedrals and Children’s Marbles: Dynamics of Religious Transmission among the Baga of Guinea
Ramon Sarró
12. Geomancy. Politics and Colonial Encounters in Rural Hong Kong
Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson
13. The Sacrifices of Modernity in a Soviet-built Steel Town in
Central India
Jonathan P. Parry
Notes on Contributors
Index

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