On the margins of religion

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On the margins of religion

edited by Frances Pine and João de Pina-Cabral

Berghahn Books, 2008

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Homeless spirits : modern spiritualism, psychical research and the anthropology of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / João Vasconcelos
  • The abominations of anthropology : Christianity, ethnographic taboos, and the meanings of 'science' / Simon Coleman
  • Religious logistics : African Christians, spirituality, and transportation / Thomas Kirsch
  • Contested spaces : temple building and the re-creation of religious boundaries in contemporary urban India / Ursula Rao
  • Bosnian neighborhoods revisited : tolerance, commitment, and Komšiluk in Sarajevo / Cornelia Sorabji
  • Revival of Buddhist royal family commemorative ritual in Laos / Grant Evans
  • Centres and margins : the organisation of extravagance as self-government in China / Stephan Feuchtwang
  • Allies and subordinates : religious practice on the margins between Buddhistm and shamanism in southern Siberia / Galina Lindquist
  • On celibate marriages : conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland / Agnieszka Kościańska
  • Elders' cathedrals and childrens' marbles : dynamics of religious transmission among the Baga of Guinea / Ramon Sarró
  • Geomancy, politics, and colonial encounters in rural Hong Kong / Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson
  • The sacrifices of modernity in a Soviet-built steel town in Central India / Jonathan P. Parry

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