Ethnographies of doubt : faith and uncertainty in contemporary societies
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書誌事項
Ethnographies of doubt : faith and uncertainty in contemporary societies
(Library of modern religion, 32)
I.B. Tauris, 2013
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographies and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Religious and secular convictions have powerful effects, but their fundaments are often surprisingly fragile. Because of the conspicuous role that nationalisms, populisms, and fundamentalisms have in our globalizing world it is essential not to take their strength for granted, but to acknowledge that conviction and doubt are part of the same dynamic. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that doubt and hesitation are daily concerns even among the Maoist movement in India, right-wing populists in Europe and newly pious Somali Muslims in London. In fact, new converts are often such stringent believers precisely because they need to dispel their own lingering doubts, while revolutionary movements survive only through the denial of ambiguity. By studying everyday doubt this volume unravels the mechanisms by which convictions gain and lose their force, and analyzes the dynamics that propel loosely held ideas into committed action. Whereas a focus on overcoming doubt highlights the exclusionary effects of committed action, attention to the breakdown of belief serves to better understand the cycles of hope, conviction, and disillusion that bespeak the human condition. This is the central theme in several chapters looking at ideological break-down. The collapse of communism, for instance, produced an epistemological crisis in which all knowledge became unstable, prompting gold-miners in Mongolia to go as far as to doubt the cosmos. The post-ideological environment of Western democracies also produces anxieties, as the break-down of the bonds of trust between governments and citizens results in feelings of betrayal. Questions of truth and action are always related: if nothing is worth fighting for then apathy and hopelessness may become symptomatic. By paying attention to the mechanisms and dynamics by which specific ideas gain and lose their credibility this volume sheds important new light on the role of ideas in social and political action.
目次
1. Introduction: towards an ethnography of doubt / Mathijs Pelkmans
PART I: WHAT IS TRUE? EPISTEMOLOGICAL DOUBT
2. Believing in spirits and doubting the Cosmos in the Mongolian gold mines / Mette High
3. 'Believe but don't be superstitious!' Discourses of authority and authenticity in a Taiwanese spirit-
Medium shrine / Friedrich Binder
4. Old Believers' passion play: faith and doubt in an Orthodox ritualist movement / Vlad Naumescu
5. The frontier between doubt and certainty in a Malagasy ethnopsychology / Maurice Bloch
PART II: WHAT TO DO? UNCERTAINTY AND HESITATION
6. Suspense in retrospective ethnography / Henk Driessen
7. Fragile ideas and uncertain action in a Central Asian industrial wasteland / Mathijs Pelkmans
8. In search of certainty in revolutionary India / Alpa Shah
PART III: Doubt and Modernity
9. Betrayal and its modern consequences / David Napier
10. Doubt and the anxieties of the everyday / Thomas Blom Hansen
11. Afterword / Matthew Engelke
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