Anthropology of Catholicism

Kristin Norget is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. Valentina Napolitano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Maya Mayblin is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

"Overall, the book brings needed shape and specificity to an otherwise amorphous field of study.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Anthropology of Catholicism Maya Mayblin, Kristin Norget, and Valentina Napolitano PART ONE. A GENEALOGY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM 1. Excerpt from "St Besse: A Study of an Alpine Cult" Robert Hertz 2. Excerpt from "Tarantism and Catholicism" Ernesto de Martino 3. Excerpt from "The Place of Grace in Anthropology" Julian A. Pitt-Rivers 4. Excerpt from "The Dinka and Catholicism" Godfrey Lienhardt 5. Excerpt from "Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage" Victor Turner and Edith Turner 6. Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish Valley William A. Christian 7. Excerpt from "The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain" Stanley H. Brandes 8. Excerpt from "Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century" Caroline Walker Bynum PART TWO. CONTEMPORARY WORKS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM 9. "Complexio Oppositorum"? Religion, Society, and Power in the Making of Catholicism in Rural South India David Mosse 10. Marking Memory: Heritage Work and Devotional Labor at Quebec's Croix de Chemin Hillary Kaell 11. Containment and Contagion: The Gender of Sin in Contemporary Catholicism Maya Mayblin 12. Opulence and Simplicity: The Question of Tension in Syrian Catholicism Andreas Bandak 13. The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism: Rupture and Continuity in a Q'eqchi'-Maya Parish Eric Hoenes del Pinal 14. The Virgin of Guadalupe and Spectacles of Catholic Evangelism in Mexico Kristin Norget 15. The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine Ellen Badone 16. A Catholic Body? Miracles, Secularity, and the Porous Self in Malta Jon P. Mitchell 17. Experiments of Inculturation in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon Ludovic Lado 18. On a Political Economy of Political Theology: El Senor de los Milagros Valentina Napolitano 19. Making a Home in an Unfortunate Place: Phenomenology and Religion J. Michelle Molina PART THREE. INTERVENTIONS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM 20. "We're All Catholics Now" Simon Coleman 21. What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis? Robert A. Orsi 22. Possession and Psychopathology, Faith and Reason Thomas J. Csordas 23. Catholicism and the Study of Religion Birgit Meyer 24. The Media of Sensation Niklaus Largier Bibliography List of Contributors Index