Learning religion
Subtitle: anthropological approaches
By: edited by David Berliner and Ramon Sarró.
Contributors: Berliner, David.; Sarró, Ramon.
Series: Methodology and history in anthropology -- v. 17
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781845453749
Subjects: Ethnology -- Religious aspects; Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: On learning religion : an introduction / David Berliner and Ramon Sarró; title: Learning to believe : a preliminary approach / Carlo Severi; title: Menstrual slaps and first blood celebrations : inference, simulation and the learning of ritual / Michael Houseman; title: The accidental in religious instruction : ideas and convictions / David Parkin; title: On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does / Michael Lambek; title: How do you learn to know that it is God who speaks? / T.M. Luhrmann; title: How to learn in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion : ontology and multiplicity in Candomblé / Marcio Goldman; title: Learning to be a proper medium : middle-class womanhood and spirit mediumship at Christian rationalist séances in Cape Verde / João Vasconcelos; title: Copyright and authorship : ritual speech and the new market of words in Toraja / Aurora Donzelli; title: Learning faith : young Christians and catechism / Laurence Hérault; title: What is interesting about Chinese religion / Charles Stafford; title: The sound of witchcraft : noise as mediation in religious transmission / Michael Rowlands.