Across The Boundaries Of Belief: Contemporary Issues In The Anthropology Of Religion

by Morton Klass, Maxine Weisgrau

Overview

This book focuses on anthropological questions and methods, and is offered as a supplement to textbooks on the anthropology of religion. It is designed to help students collecting and interpreting their own fieldwork or archival data and relating their findings to the work of others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429982194
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/20/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	424
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Klass, Morton | Weisgrau, Maxine

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Colonialism and Postcolonial Legacies 1. Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions 2. From Tupã to the Land Without Evil: The Christianization of Tupi-Guarani Cosmology 3. Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-Day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past 4. Reflections on Christianity in China Part II: Gender and Sexuality 5. Menstruation and Reproduction: An Oglala Case 6. The Domestication of Religion: The Spiritual Guardianship of Elderly Jewish Women 7. Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses 8. Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized Homosexuality" in Melanesia and Beyond Part III: The Healing Touch and Altered States 9. Exorcistsy Psychiatrists, and the Problems of Possession in Northwest Madagascar 10. The Woman Who Wanted To Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk Possession in a Hasidic Community 11. Hypnosis and Trance Induction in the Surgeries of Brazilian Spiritist Healer-Mediums 12. Zar as Modernization in Contemporary Sudan Part IV: Religion and the State 13. Pockets Full of Mistakes: The Personal Consequences of Religious Change in a Toraja Village 14. Bandits, Beggars, and Ghosts: The Failure of State Control over Religious Interpretation in Taiwan 15. Muslim Identity and Secularism in Contemporary Turkey: "The Headscarf Dispute" 16. The Interpretation of Politics: A Hopi Conundrum Part V: Changes and Continuities 17. Cargoism in Irian Jaya Today 18. Transnational Popular Culture and the Global Spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian Movement 19. On Founders and Followers: Some Factors in the Development of New Religious Movements 20. Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion