On the margins of religion / edited by Frances Pine and Joao de Pina-Cabral.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 286 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- On the margins: an introduction / Joao Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine
- Homeless spirits: modern spiritualism, psychical research and the anthropology of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Joao 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 Komsiluk 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 Koscianska
- Elders' cathedrals and childrens' marbles: dynamics of religious transmission among the Baga of Guinea / Ramon Sarro
- 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.