List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. On the Margins: An Introduction
João de Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine
Chapter 2. Homeless Spirits: Modern Spiritualism,
Psychical Research and the Anthropology of Religion in the Late
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
João Vasconcelos
Chapter 3. The Abominations of Anthropology:
Christianity, Ethnographic Taboos and the Meanings of 'Science'
Simon Coleman
Chapter 4. Religious Logistics: African Christians,
Spirituality and Transportation
Thomas Kirsch
Chapter 5. Contested Spaces: Temple Building and the
Re-creation of Religious Boundaries in Contemporary Urban India
Ursula Rao
Chapter 6. Bosnian Neighbourhoods Revisited: Tolerance,
Commitment and Kom¡siluk in Sarajevo
Cornelia Sorabji
Chapter 7. Revival of Buddhist Royal Family Commemorative
Ritual in Laos
Grant Evans
Chapter 8. Centres and Margins: The Organisation of
Extravagance as Self-government in China
Stephan Feuchtwang
Chapter 9. Allies and Subordinates: Religious Practice on
the Margins between Buddhism and Shamanism in Southern Siberia
Galina Lindquist
Chapter 10. On Celibate Marriages: Conversion to the
Brahma Kumaris in Poland
Agnieszka Koscianska
Chapter 11. Elders' Cathedrals and Children's Marbles:
Dynamics of Religious Transmission among the Baga of Guinea
Ramon Sarró
Chapter 12. Geomancy, Politics and Colonial Encounters in
Rural Hong Kong
Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson
Chapter 13. The Sacrifices of Modernity in a Soviet-built
Steel Town in Central India
Jonathan P. Parry
Notes on Contributors
Index
Frances Pine was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, and a Professor at the Institute of Gender Research at the University of Bergen and is now at Goldsmiths University of London. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Poland over the past 25 years. She is the co-editor of Surviving Post Socialism (Routledge 1998) and Memory, Politics and Religion: the Past Meets the Present in Europe (LIT 2004), and author of numerous articles on kinship, economy and gender, eastern Europe, history, place and memory.
“The result, with an overarching focus on ‘modernity and its ambivalences’ is a well-written and insightful volume, which presents new and exciting ways of dealing with one of anthropology’s more ancient (but still essential) research topics.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale “…an engaging contribution to the anthropology of religion…Overall, this volume is a treasure trove of inspiring ethnographies.” · JRAI “Contributors to this volume stay very close to their data. They do not advance grand theories of religion.Nor do they limit themselves to the usual topics in anthropological studies like doctrine, faith, and ritual. Transcending the Durkheimian perspective (that understood religion in terms of collective rituals and morality), contributors instead focus on religion as a malleable and highly reflexive process. They advocate a ‘lateral’ (Needham), broadly comparative approach to the anthropological study of religion. Highly recommended.” · Anthropos
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