Learning religion anthropological approaches / edited by David Berliner and Ramon Sarró.

Other author Berliner, David.
Other author Sarró, Ramon.
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books,
Descriptionvi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesMethodology and history in anthropology ; v. 17
Contents On learning religion : an introduction / David Berliner and Ramon Sarró -- Learning to believe : a preliminary approach / Carlo Severi -- Menstrual slaps and first blood celebrations : inference, simulation and the learning of ritual / Michael Houseman -- The accidental in religious instruction : ideas and convictions / David Parkin -- On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does / Michael Lambek -- How do you learn to know that it is God who speaks? / T.M. Luhrmann -- How to learn in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion : ontology and multiplicity in Candomblé / Marcio Goldman -- Learning to be a proper medium : middle-class womanhood and spirit mediumship at Christian rationalist séances in Cape Verde / João Vasconcelos -- Copyright and authorship : ritual speech and the new market of words in Toraja / Aurora Donzelli -- Learning faith : young Christians and catechism / Laurence Hérault -- What is interesting about Chinese religion / Charles Stafford -- The sound of witchcraft : noise as mediation in religious transmission / Michael Rowlands.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index.
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