Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

AvDavid Berliner,Ramon Sarró

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Del i serien Methodology & History in Anthropology

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Beskrivning

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of “downloading” but also as a social process with its relational dimension.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Methodology & History in Anthropology
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781845455941

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David Berliner is an Assistant Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He received his PhD from University of Brussels (2002). In 2001 he was a visiting PhD student at Saint Cross College, Oxford, and in 2003-2005 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.

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“This volume demonstrates that a formidable barrier divides social and the cognitive anthropologists. Sperber, Bloch, Whitehouse, and even the very Durkheimian Mary Douglas have been encouraging a merger between cognitive studies, hermeneutics, and ethnography, while others have been more reticent or antagonistic…Either way, this work has helped to advance the discussion.” · Anthropos“This volume is a valuable contribution to an emergent field of study, and will appeal to scholars who seek new interdisciplinary approaches.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

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AcknowledgementsChapter 1. On Learning Religion: An IntroductionDavid Berliner and Ramon SarróChapter 2. Learning to Believe: A Preliminary ApproachCarlo SeveriChapter 3. Menstrual Slaps and First Blood Celebrations: Inference, Simulation and the Learning of RitualMichael HousemanChapter 4. The Accidental in Religious Instruction: Ideas and ConvictionsDavid ParkinChapter 5. On Catching Up With Oneself: Learning to Know That One Means What One DoesMichael LambekChapter 6. How Do You Learn to Know That it is God Who Speaks?T.M. LuhrmannChapter 7. How to Learn in an Afro-Brazilian Spirit Possession Religion: Ontology and Multiplicity in CandombléMarcio GoldmanChapter 8. Learning to be a Proper Medium: Middle-Class Womanhood and Spirit Mediumship at Christian Rationalist Séances in Cape VerdeJoão VasconcelosChapter 9. Copyright and Authorship: Ritual Speech and the New Market of Words in TorajaAurora DonzelliChapter 10. Learning Faith: Young Christians and CatechismLaurence HéraultChapter 11. What is Interesting about Chinese ReligionCharles StaffordChapter 12. The Sound of Witchcraft: Noise as Mediation in Religious TransmissionMichael RowlandsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex