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Religion and Society - Volume 3: Advances in Research (Paperback)
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Religion and Society - Volume 3: Advances in Research (Paperback)
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To open this volume Jean Comaroff, one of the most important voices
in the anthropology of religion over the past 30 years, reflects on
the development of her thought on religion, the colony and the
postcolony, in terms both personal and scholarly. Her work and
interests echo in this volume through subsequent discussions of
community, politics and morality in the Occupy movement in London;
religion and diaspora; the cultural logics behind Afro-Brazilian
cults; and the 'anthropology of missions' on both sides of the
Atlantic. Other contributions explore an almost forgotten tradition
of cosmological studies; hyperbole and sacredness in the dramatic
case studies of 9/11 and the Holocaust; and the somewhat
counterintuitive links between religion and sport. This volume's
debate section considers the place and role of religion in
revolutionary contexts, from 'Tahrir politics' to the Tamil
conflict, from the implicit historicity and structure of jihadism
to the conflation of international political developments and
religious movements. The volume is rounded out by discussions of
Manuel Vazquez's Beyond Belief, a book that picks up longstanding
debates concerning practice, belief, materiality and cognition; a
teaching section; and an extensive set of book reviews.
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