Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey

Christopher Houston

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy . In the na... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Protestantism

Joseph Webster

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality,... Lees meer

The Halal Frontier

J Fischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade... Lees meer

Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland

G Ganiel

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• This innovative book explores the role of evangelical religion in the conflict in Northern Ireland, including how it may contribute to a peaceful poli... Lees meer

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Juxtaposes case studies from Melanesia and Africa in order to better compare, contrast, and illuminate the effects of and engagements with Pentecostal... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Protestantism

Joseph Webster

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality,... Lees meer

Living Mantra

Mani Rao

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by ... Lees meer

Christian Temporalities

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human t... Lees meer

Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen

Kenneth A Loparo

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• This book tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite that was overthrown in the 1962 revolution in North Yemen, after enjoying exclusive rights to the... Lees meer

Faith in Objects

E Hasinoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition, ' to light, focusing on how the mater... Lees meer

Yoruba in Diaspora

H Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• The Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Se... Lees meer

Buddhism, International Relief Work, and Civil Society

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Natural disasters in Asian countries have brought global attention to the work of local Buddhist communities and groups. Here, the contributors examin... Lees meer

Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia

T Gibson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notio... Lees meer

Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural Revitalization

M Balzer

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Many voices clamor to be heard in debates about whether shamans cure, and whether shamanic spirituality is worth continuing or recovering in the twent... Lees meer

Judaism in Motion

Sibylle Lustenberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex paren... Lees meer

New Directions in Spiritual Kinship

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinship-or kinship reckoned in relation to the divine-in creating myriad forms of affiliations amon... Lees meer

Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia

T Gibson

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notio... Lees meer

The Halal Frontier

J Fischer

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade... Lees meer

Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America

P Cahn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Throu... Lees meer

Judaism in Motion

Sibylle Lustenberger

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex paren... Lees meer

Sharia Dynamics

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• This multidisciplinary volume explores the role of Islamic law within the dynamic processes of postcolonial transformation, nation building, and socia... Lees meer

Questioning French Secularism

Jennifer Selby

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse positions publicly-visible Muslim ... Lees meer

The Christianity of Culture

L Chua

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• In this richly contextualized study, Liana Chua explores how a largely Christian Bidayuh community has been reconfiguring its relationship to its old ... Lees meer

Communitas

E Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense fel... Lees meer