On the Margins of Religion / / ed. by João de Pina-Cabral, Frances Pine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Coleman, Simon,; Evans, Grant,; Feuchtwang, Stephan,; Kirsch, Thomas,; Koscianska, Agnieszka,; Lindquist, Galina,; Parry, Jonathan P.,; Pina-Cabral, João de,; Pine, Frances,; Rao, Ursula,; Sarró, Ramon,; Sorabji, Cornelia,; Vasconcelos, João,; Watson, James L.,; Watson, Rubie S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Pina-Cabral, João de,; Pine, Frances,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. On the Margins: An Introduction -- 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 -- 3. The Abominations of Anthropology: Christianity, Ethnographic Taboos and the Meanings of ‘Science’ -- Part II: Space and Religious Marginality -- 4. Religious Logistics: African Christians, Spirituality and Transportation -- 5. Contested Spaces: Temple Building and the Re-creation of Religious Boundaries in Contemporary Urban India -- 6. Bosnian Neighbourhoods Revisited: Tolerance, Commitment and Komˇsiluk in Sarajevo -- Part III: Power and Relative Centrality -- 7. Revival of Buddhist Royal Family Commemorative Ritual in Laos -- 8. Centres and Margins: The Organisation of Extravagance as Self-government in China -- Part IV: Religious Options and Identitary Claims -- 9. Allies and Subordinates: Religious Practice on the Margins between Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern Siberia -- 10. On Celibate Marriages: Conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland -- Part V: Modernity and the Transmission of Religion -- 11. Elders’ Cathedrals and Children’s Marbles: Dynamics of Religious Transmission among the Baga of Guinea -- 12. Geomancy, Politics and Colonial Encounters in Rural Hong Kong -- 13. The Sacrifices of Modernity in a Soviet-built Steel Town in Central India -- Notes on Contributors -- Index