Title: Across the boundaries of belief :
Authors: Klass, Morton,; Weisgrau, Maxine K.; Klass, Morton,
Date: 1999
Publisher: Westview Press,
Physical description: viii, 416 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Colonialism and Postcolonial Legacies -- Anthropologists Versus Missionaries: The Influence of Presuppositions / Claude E. Stipe -- From Tupa to the Land Without Evil: The Christianization of Tupi-Guarani Cosmology / Judith Shapiro -- Shamanism and Christianity: Modern-Day Tlingit Elders Look at the Past / Sergei Kan -- Reflections on Christianity in China / Morton H. Fried -- Gender and Sexuality -- Menstruation and Reproduction: An Oglala Case / Marla N. Powers -- The Domestication of Religion: The Spiritual Guardianship of Elderly Jewish Women / Susan Sered -- Becoming a Mujercita: Rituals, Fiestas, and Religious Discourses / Valentina Napolitano -- Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized Homosexuality" in Melanesia and Beyond / Deborah A. Elliston -- The Healing Touch and Altered States -- Exorcists, Psychiatrists, and the Problems of Possession in Northwest Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp -- The Woman Who Wanted To Be Her Father: A Case Analysis of Dybbuk Possession in a Hasidic Community / 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 -- Religion and the State -- Pockets Full of Mistakes: The Personal Consequences of Religious Change in a Toraja Village / Douglas Hollan -- Bandits, Beggars, and Ghosts: The Failure of State Control over Religious Interpretation in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller -- Muslim Identity and Secularism in Contemporary Turkey: "The Headscarf Dispute," / Emelie A. Olson -- The Interpretation of Politics: A Hopi Conundrum / Peter M. Whiteley -- Changes and Continuities -- 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: Some Factors in the Development of New Religious Movements / Benton Johnson -- Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion / Susan F. Harding.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ethnology--Religious aspects.; Religion.; Religions.