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Title Across the boundaries of belief : contemporary issues in the anthropology of religion / [edited by] Morton Klass, Maxine Weisgrau.

Publication Info. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 416 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-405) and index.
Contents Anthropologists versus missionaries / Claude E. Stipe -- From TupĆ£ to the land without evil / Judith Shapiro -- Shamanism and Christianity / Sergei Kan -- Reflections on Christianity in China / Morton H. Fried -- Menstruation and reproduction / Marla N. Powers -- Domestication of religion / Susan Sered -- Becoming a mujercita / Valentina Napolitano -- Erotic anthropology / Deborah A. Elliston -- Exorcists, psychiatrists, and the problems of possession in Northwest Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp -- Woman who wanted to be her father / Yoram Bilu -- Hypnosis and trance induction in the surgeries of Brazilian spiritist healer-mediums / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Pockets full of mistakes / Douglas Hollan -- Bandits, beggars, and ghosts / Robert P. Weller -- Muslim identity and secularism in contemporary Turkey / Emelie A. Olson -- Interpretation of politics / Peter M. Whiteley -- Cargoism in Irian Jaya today / Benny Giay and Jan A. Godschalk -- Transnational popular culture and the global spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement / Neil J. Savishinsky -- On founders and followers / Benton Johnson -- Convicted by the Holy Spirit / Susan F. Harding.
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Summary "In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world sources, 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 large cultural matrix by drawing upon literature that exhibits an interdisciplinary as well as global approach."--Jacket.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Ethnology -- Religious aspects.
Ethnology -- Religious aspects.
Religion.
Religion.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Klass, Morton, 1927-2001.
Weisgrau, Maxine K.
Other Form: Print version: Across the boundaries of belief. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999 081332694X 9780813326948 (DLC) 99229970 (OCoLC)40753227
ISBN 9781429491099 (electronic book)
1429491094 (electronic book)
081332694X (hardcover)
9780813326948 (hardcover)
0813326958 (paperback)
9780813326955 (paperback)