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1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) : illustrations |
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Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 17 |
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Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 17.
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| Contents |
On learning religion : an introduction / David Berliner and Ramon Sarró -- Learning to believe : a preliminary approach / Carlo Severi -- Menstrual slaps and first blood celebrations : inference, simulation and the learning of ritual / Michael Houseman -- The accidental in religious instruction : ideas and convictions / David Parkin -- On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does / Michael Lambek -- How do you learn to know that it is God who speaks? / T.M. Luhrmann -- How to learn in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion : ontology and multiplicity in Candomblé / Marcio Goldman -- Learning to be a proper medium : middle-class womanhood and spirit mediumship at Christian rationalist séances in Cape Verde / João Vasconcelos -- Copyright and authorship : ritual speech and the new market of words in Toraja / Aurora Donzelli -- Learning faith : young Christians and catechism / Laurence Hérault -- What is interesting about Chinese religion / Charles Stafford -- The sound of witchcraft : noise as mediation in religious transmission / Michael Rowlands |
| Summary |
As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of "downloading" but also as a social process with its relational dimension |
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Based on conference held at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, on 8-11 September 2005 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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| Subject |
Ethnology -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
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Anthropology of religion -- Congresses
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Religion -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Education.
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Anthropology of religion
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Ethnology -- Religious aspects
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Religion
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Religion
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Ethnologie
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berliner, David
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Sarró, Ramon
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| ISBN |
9781461951025 |
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146195102X |
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9781782382133 |
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1782382135 |
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