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Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
Liza Debevec (Ed.)
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Paperback. Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Editor(s): Debevec, Liza; Schielke, Smuli. Series: EASA. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.
Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
EASA
Condition
New
Weight
254g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785331992
SKU
V9781785331992
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About Liza Debevec (Ed.)
Samuli Schielke is a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. His research interests include Islam, festive culture, subjectivity and morality, and migration and aspiration in Egypt. Liza Debevec is a research fellow at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. Her research focuses on the anthropology of everyday life ... Read more
Reviews for Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
Composed of eight ethnographically rich essays... [this] important, trenchant edited volume... offers a decisive intervention into the study of religion in an `unfixed' world by modifying the category of religion with the analytic field of the `everyday'. American Ethnologist