Religion and Cultural Studies / / ed. by Susan L. Mizruchi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bercovitch, Eytan,; Feeley-Harnik, Gillian,; Franchot, Jenny,; Gunn, Giles,; Harpham, Geoffrey Galt,; Lawrence, Bruce B.,; Mccarthy Brown, Karen,; Miles, Jack,; Mizruchi, Susan L.,; Smith, Jonathan Z.,; Wightman Fox, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Mizruchi, Susan L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 p.) :; 11 halftones

Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Close Encounters of Diverse Kinds
• 2. Telling a Life through Haitian Vodou: An Essay Concerning Race, Gender, Memory, and Historical Consciousness
• 3. Unseemly Commemoration: Religion, Fragments, and the Icon
• 4. The Place of Ritual in Our Time
• 5. Human Solidarity and the Problem of Otherness
• 6. Ascetics, Aesthetics, and the Management of Desire
• 7. New Baptized: The Culture of Love in America, 1830s to 1950s
• 8. “The Mystery of Life in All Its Forms”: Religious Dimensions of Culture in Early American Anthropology
• 9. Global Requiem: The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion, Science, and Art
• 10. The Altar of Sin: Social Multiplicity and Christian Conversion among a New Guinea People
• 11. God On Line: Locating the Pagan/Asian Soul of America in Cyberspace
• Selected Bibliography
• Index of Names