On the Margins of Religion
Author： Hochscherf Tobias;Laucht Christoph;
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2008
E-ISBN: 9780857450111
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781845454098
Subject： B91 对宗教的分析和研究
Keyword： null 宗教,哲学理论Philosophical TheoryReligion
Language： ENG
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Description
Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives and ritual spaces where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of specific historical processes in terms of responses to socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science (including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalisation of the twenty-first century. Their ethnographies highlight the embodiment of religion and its location in landscapes, built spaces and religious sites which may be contested, physically or ideologically, or encased in memory and often in silence. Taken together, they show the importance of religion as a resource to the believers: a source of solace, spiritual comfort and self-willed submission.
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