Religion in English Everyday Life : : An Ethnographic Approach / / Timothy Jenkins.
Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies - the life of a country church, an annual procession by the c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Methodology & History in Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS
- MAPS AND TABLES
- PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS IN AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
- PART I: TWO SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RELIGION IN MODERN BRITAIN
- PART II: THE COUNTRY CHURCH – THE CASE OF ST. MARY’S, COMBERTON
- PART III: THE KINGSWOOD WHIT WALK
- 1 INTRODUCTORY
- 2 THE WHIT WALK
- 3 FAMILY AND LOCALITY
- 4 ‘FIENDS TRANSFORMED’ A DISCUSSION OF LOCAL HISTORY
- 5 RESPECTABILITY, REPUTATION AND RESTRAINT
- 6 ANXIETY, CONFLICT AND GOSSIP
- 7 IN CONCLUSION
- PART IV: SECRETS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX