Ordinary lives and grand schemes : an anthropology of everyday religion

Author(s)

• Schielke, Joska Samuli
• Debevec, Liza

Bibliographic Information

Ordinary lives and grand schemes : an anthropology of everyday religion

edited by Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec

（The EASA series, 18）

Berghahn Books, 2012

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.

Table of Contents

Introduction Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec Chapter 1. Divination and Islam: Existential Perspectives in the Study of Ritual and Religious Praxis in Senegal and Gambia Knut Graw Chapter 2. Postponing Piety in Urban Burkina Faso: Discussing Ideas on When to Start Acting as a Pious Muslim Liza Debevec Chapter 3. Everyday Religion, Ambiguity and Homosocial Relationships in Manitoba, Canada from 1911 to 1949 Alison R. Marshall Chapter 4. 'Doing Things Properly': Religious Aspects in Everyday Sociality in Apiao, Chiloe Giovanna Bacchiddu Chapter 5. The Ordinary within the Extraordinary: Sainthood Making and Everyday Religious Practice in Lesvos, Greece Severine Rey Chapter 6. Say a Little Hallo to Padre Pio: Production and Consumption of Space in the Construction of the Sacred at the Shrine of Santa Maria delle Grazie Evgenia Mesaritou Chapter 7. Going to the Mulid: Street-smart Spirituality in Egypt Jennifer Peterson Chapter 8. Capitalist Ethics and the Spirit of Islamization in Egypt Samuli Schielke Afterword: Everyday Religion and the Contemporary World: The Un-Modern, or What Was Supposed to Have Disappeared but Did Not Robert A. Orsi Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB09876621
• ISBN:
  • 9780857455062
• LCCN: 2011052024
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 168 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL624
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religious life
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA72757133