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Across The Boundaries Of Belief - Contemporary Issues In The Anthropology Of Religion (Hardcover)
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Across The Boundaries Of Belief - Contemporary Issues In The Anthropology Of Religion (Hardcover)
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In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many
different world areas, contemporary theoretical issues and
conflicts in the anthropological study of religion are explored and
illustrated. The editors present these anthropological writings on
religion within a larger cultural matrix by drawing upon literature
exhibiting an interdisciplinary as well as global approach.The book
examines religion within social, political, and historical contexts
to confront theoretical and methodological questions that apply
across time and borders. How do belief systems respond to conquest
and the imposition of foreign values, beliefs, and practices? What
happens to religion when the colonial rulers depart? What are the
relationships between gender, sexuality, and religious rules and
restrictions? How is gender constructed and maintained within
ideological systems? How do the beliefs and practices underlying
possession and trance deal with illness and death, and how do they
respond to science and other belief systems? Is religion a tool or
weapon of the state?or an enemy of the people? And how does
religion, often erroneously perceived as changeless and constant,
respond to the pressures and technologies of this rapidly changing
world? Across the Boundaries of Belief examines these issues and
many others.The readings derive from interdisciplinary as well as
global literature, and the titles of the sections reflect the
contexts within which religion is explored and portrayed in this
collection: ?Colonialism and the Post-Colonial Legacy,? ?Gender and
Sexuality,? ?The Healing Touch and Altered States,? ?Religion and
the State,? and ?Changes and Continuities.? The book will help
students and general readers to perceive religion as a pan-human
institution embedded in social structures, political systems, and
historical contexts.
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