Learning religion : anthropological approaches /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Description:vi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 17
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6650929
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Other authors / contributors:Berliner, David.
Sarró Burbano, Ramón.
ISBN:9781845453749 (hardback : alk. paper)
1845453743 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • On learning religion : an introduction / David Berliner and Ramon Sarró
  • Learning to believe : a preliminary approach / Carlo Severi
  • Menstrual slaps and first blood celebrations : inference, simulation and the learning of ritual / Michael Houseman
  • The accidental in religious instruction : ideas and convictions / David Parkin
  • On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does / Michael Lambek
  • How do you learn to know that it is God who speaks? / T.M. Luhrmann
  • How to learn in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion : ontology and multiplicity in Candomblé / Marcio Goldman
  • Learning to be a proper medium : middle-class womanhood and spirit mediumship at Christian rationalist séances in Cape Verde / João Vasconcelos
  • Copyright and authorship : ritual speech and the new market of words in Toraja / Aurora Donzelli
  • Learning faith : young Christians and catechism / Laurence Hérault
  • What is interesting about Chinese religion / Charles Stafford
  • The sound of witchcraft : noise as mediation in religious transmission / Michael Rowlands.