The anthropology of Catholicism : a reader /
Norget, Kristin,editor,author.
Napolitano, Valentina,editor,author.
Mayblin, Maya,editor,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-355) and index.
Introduction : the anthropology of Catholicism / Maya Mayblin, Kristin Norget, and Valentina Napolitano -- Part one. A genealogy of the anthropology of Catholicism. Excerpt from "St. Besse : a study of an Alpine cult" / Robert Hertz -- Excerpt from "Tarantism and Catholicism" / Ernesto de Martino -- Excerpt from "The place of grace in anthropology" / Julian A. Pitt-Rivers -- Excerpt from "The Dinka and Catholicism" / Godfrey Lienhardt -- Excerpt from "Iconophily and iconoclasm in Marian pilgrimage" / Victor Turner and Edith Turner -- Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish valley / William A. Christian -- Excerpt from "The priest as agent of secularization in rural Spain" / Stanley H. Brandes -- Excerpt from "Women mystics and Eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century" / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Part two. Contemporary works in the anthropology of Catholicism. "Complexio oppositorum?" : religion, society, and power in the making of Catholicism in rural south India / David Mosse -- Marking memory : heritage work and devotional labour at Quebec's Croix de Chemin / Hillary Kaell -- Containment and contagion : the gender of sin in contemporary Catholicism / Maya Mayblin -- Opulence and simplicity : the question of tension in Syrian Catholicism / Andreas Bandak -- The paradox of charismatic Catholicism : rupture and continuity in a Q'eqchi'-Maya parish / Eric Hoenes del Pinal -- The Virgin of Guadalupe and the spectacle of Catholic evangelism in Mexico / Kristin Norget -- The rosary as a meditation on death at a Marian apparition shrine / Ellen Badone -- A Catholic body? : miracles, secularity, and the porous self in Malta / Jon P. Mitchell -- Experiments of inculturation in a Catholic charismatic movement in Cameroon / Ludovic Lado -- On a political economy of political theology : El Señor de los Milagros / Valentina Napolitano -- Making a home in an unfortunate place : phenomenology and religion / J. Michelle Molina -- Part three. Interventions in the anthropology of Catholicism. "We're all Catholics now" / Simon Coleman -- What is Catholic about the clergy sex abuse crisis? / Robert A. Orsi -- Possession and psychopathology, faith and reason / Thomas J. Csordas -- Catholicism and the study of religion / Birgit Meyer -- The media of sensation / Niklaus Largier.
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church.
Anthropology of religion.
Anthropology of religion.
Anthropology of Catholicism