Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of ReligionHarvey Whitehouse, James Laidlaw Rowman Altamira, 2004 - 219 páginas Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cognitively-based approach, they all help evaluate and refine Whitehouse's theory and so contribute to a new comparative approach in the anthropology of religion. Visit our website for sample chapters! |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Divergent Modes of Religiosity in West Africa | 11 |
Modes of Religiosity and the Legacy of Ernest Gellner | 31 |
Is Image to Doctrine as Speech to Writing? Modes of Communication and the Origins of Religion | 49 |
Ritual and Deference | 65 |
The Doctrinal Mode and Evangelical Christianity in the United States | 79 |
Embedded Modes of Religiosity in Indic Renouncer Religions | 89 |
Conceptualizing from Within Divergent Religious Modes from Asian Modernist Perspectives | 111 |
Late Medieval Christianity Balinese Hinduism and the Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity | 135 |
Religious Doctrine or Experience A Matter of Seeing Learning or Doing | 155 |
Universalistic Orientations of an Imagistic Mode of Religiosity The Case of the West African Poro Cult | 173 |
Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion | 187 |
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About the Contributors | 217 |
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Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion Harvey Whitehouse,James Laidlaw Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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