Created by two of the field s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief. * Offers the first comprehensive overview of the field of international religious demography detailing what we know about religious adherents around the world, and how we know it * Examines religious freedom and diversity, including agnostics and atheists, on a global scale, highlighting trends over the past 100 years and projecting estimates for the year 2050 * Outlines the issues and challenges related to definitions, taxonomies, sources, analyses, and other techniques in interpreting data on religious adherence * Considers data from religious communities, censuses, surveys, and scholarly research, along with several in-depth case studies on the global Muslim population, religion in China, and the religious demography of recently created Sudan and South Sudan * Argues against the belief that the twentieth-century was a secular period by putting forward new evidence to the contrary * Provides resources for measuring both qualitatively and quantitatively important data on the world's religious situation in the twenty-first century

A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on AIDS, psychology and emotion, nutrition, and bioethics, the text reflects the changes in medical anthropological theory and practice since the late 1980s. Chapters from the first edition are revised to reflect current trends and to include recent references. This work demonstrates the creative expansion and diversity in the field, amidst efforts to explore the individual sickness experience in the context of local cultures and global political and economic dynamics.

ri-par-ian--relating to or located on the bank of a natural watercourse as a river] If a boy is lucky, he will grow up sharing his youth with a river. Add a river to a childhood and every boy is a potential Huckleberry Finn. The river beckons adventure and the boy answers. In 1967 the Wells Dam Hydro Electric Project formed the Lake Pateros Reservoir which swallowed up the last wild stretch of the Upper Columbia River in Washington State. A once vibrant stretch of river course became a placid lake fouled by milfoil weed and algae blooms, submerging forever beneath forty feet of glacial-blue water a magical playground where a boy once lived, roamed, and explored. In his memoir Growing Up Riparian T. M. Johnson recalls the ten years he spent growing up on the banks of the Columbia River when the Columbia was yet Mighty and a boy still young.

A significant update of the 1990 classic state-of-the-art handbook on medical anthropology. With new chapters on AIDS, psychology and emotion, nutrition, and bioethics, the text reflects the changes in medical anthropological theory and practice since the late 1980s. Chapters from the first edition are revised to reflect current trends and to include recent references. This work demonstrates the creative expansion and diversity in the field, amidst efforts to explore the individual sickness experience in the context of local cultures and global political and economic dynamics.

A collection of original papers on the nature of AIDS social research, this volume brings together anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and public health researchers to consider the methodological, empirical, and conceptual aspects of the problem. Unlike other studies, which focus on the medical and epidemiological aspects of AIDS, this study specifically focuses on the social aspects of the disease, the response of the community and medical profession, and the effects of the epidemic upon the gay subculture. Consideration is given to methodological shortcomings in the research on the social aspects of AIDS as well as reports of original research.