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Ritual and Memory
Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion
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2004
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0617-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1544-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
219
Product type
Edited Book
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Dedication No access
CONTENTS No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
CHAPTER 1 Divergent Modes of Religiosity in West Africa No access Pages 11 - 30
CHAPTER 2 Modes of Religiosity and the Legacy of Ernest Gellner No access Pages 31 - 48
CHAPTER 3 Is Image to Doctrine as Speech to Writing? Modes of Communication and the Origins of Religion No access Pages 49 - 64
CHAPTER 4 Ritual and Deference No access Pages 65 - 78
CHAPTER 5 The Doctrinal Mode and Evangelical Christianity in the United States No access Pages 79 - 88
CHAPTER 6 Embedded Modes of Religiosity in lndic Renouncer Religions No access Pages 89 - 110
CHAPTER 7 Conceptualizing from Within: Divergent Religious Modes from Asian Modernist Perspectives No access Pages 111 - 134
CHAPTER 8 Late Medieval Christianity, Balinese Hinduism, and the Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity No access Pages 135 - 154
CHAPTER 9 Religious Doctrine or Experience: A Matter of Seeing, Learning, or Doing No access Pages 155 - 172
CHAPTER 10 Universalistic Orientations of an Imagistic Mode of Religiosity: The Case of the West African Poro Cult No access Pages 173 - 186
CHAPTER 11 Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion No access Pages 187 - 206
