Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes : : An Anthropology of Everyday Religion / / ed. by Samuli Schielke, Liza Debevec.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bacchiddu, Giovanna,; Debevec, Liza,; Graw, Knut,; Marshall, Alison R.,; Mesaritou, Evgenia,; Orsi, Robert A.,; Peterson, Jennifer,; Rey, Séverine,; Schielke, Samuli,
• HerausgeberIn: Debevec, Liza,; Schielke, Samuli,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (174 p.)

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Divination and Islam Existential Perspectives in the Study of Ritual and Religious Praxis in Senegal and Gambia -- 2 Postponing Piety in Urban Burkina Faso Discussing Ideas on When to Start Acting as a Pious Muslim -- 3 Everyday Religion, Ambiguity and Homosocial Relationships in Manitoba, Canada from 1911 to 1949 -- 4 ‘Doing Things Properly’ Religious Aspects in Everyday Sociality in Apiao, Chiloé -- 5 The Ordinary within the Extraordinary Sainthood-Making and Everyday Religious Practice in Lesvos, Greece -- 6 Say a Little Hallo to Padre Pio Production and Consumption of Space in the Construction of the Sacred at the Shrine of Santa Maria delle Grazie -- 7 Going to the Mulid Street-smart Spirituality in Egypt -- 8 Capitalist Ethics and the Spirit of Islamization in Egypt -- Afterword Everyday Religion and the Contemporary World The Un-Modern, Or What Was Supposed to Have Disappeared But Did Not -- Contributors -- Index