| Description |
1 online resource (424 pages) : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
chapter Part Colonialism and Postcolonial Legacies -- part Part 1 Colonialism and Postcolonial Legacies -- chapter 1 Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions, Claude E. Stipe -- chapter 2 From Tupa to the Land Without Evil: The Christianization of Tupi -Guarani Cosmology / Judith Shapiro -- chapter 3 Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-Day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past, Sergei Kan -- chapter 4 Reflections on Christianity in China, Morton H. Fried -- part Part 2 Gender and Sexuality -- chapter 5 Menstruation and Reproduction: An Oglala Case / Marla N. Powers 85 -- chapter 6 The Domestication of Religion: The Spiritual Guardianship of Elderly Jewish Women, Susan Sered -- chapter 7 Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses, Valentina Napolitano -- chapter 8 Erotic Anthropology: -- part Part 3 The Healing Touch and Altered States -- chapter 9 Exorcists, Psychiatrists, and the Problems of Possession in Northwest Madagascar, Lesley A. Sharp -- chapter 10 The Woman Who Wanted To Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk Possession in a Hasidic Community, Yoram Bilu -- chapter 11 Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums, Sidney M. Greenfield -- chapter 12 Zar as Modernization in Contemporary Sudan, Susan M. Kenyon -- part Part 4 Religion and the State -- chapter 13 Pockets Full of Mistakes: The Personal Consequences of Religious Change in a Toraja Village, Douglas Hollan -- chapter 14 Bandits, Beggars, and Ghosts: The Failure of State Control over Religious Interpretation in Taiwan, Robert P. Weller -- chapter 15 Muslim Identity and Secularism in Contemporary Turkey: -- chapter 16 The Interpretation of Politics: A Hopi Conundrum, Peter M. Whiteley -- part Part 5 Changes and Continuities -- chapter 17 Cargoism in Irian Jaya Today, Benny Giay and fan A. Godschalk -- chapter 18 Transnational Popular Culture and the Global Spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian Movement, Neil f. Savishinsky -- chapter 19 On Founders and Followers: Some Factors in the Development of New Religious Movements, Benton Johnson -- chapter 20 Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion, Susan F. Harding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available in print format |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Religious aspects.
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Religion.
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| Author |
Klass, Morton, 1927-2001.
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Weisgrau, Maxine K.
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Taylor & Francis.
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| LC no. |
99229970 |
| ISBN |
9780429502569 (e-book : PDF) |
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9780429971112 (e-book: PDF) |
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9780429993275 (e-book: Mobi) |
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9780813326948 (hardback) |
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9780813326955 (paperback) |
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