Holy Hustlers Schism And Prophecy

Author : Richard Werbner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268539
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy written by Richard Werbner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Book contents:] Holy hustling -- Between the prophetic and the pastoral -- The lives of prophets and bishops -- Escalating crisis : faith and trust "under destruction"--Schism, innovation, and continuity -- Personal nearness and sincerity in prayer -- Diagnosis, reconnaissance, and fabrication -- Prescribing Christian cosmetics : moving bodies and intercorporeality -- Old and new in Chrisitian reformation -- From film to book--dianoia and noesis.

Author : Thomas G. Kirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buchbesprechung Von Richard Werbner: "Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy written by Thomas G. Kirsch and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joel Robbins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520238001
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Sinners written by Joel Robbins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of cultural change through the study of the Christianization of the Urapmin, a Melanesian society in Papua New Guinea.

Author : Fenella Cannell
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388154
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Christianity written by Fenella Cannell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical “repressed” of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself as a rational, empirically based enterprise quite different from theology. The theology it repudiated was, for the most part, Christian. Cannell asserts that anthropological theory carries within it ideas profoundly shaped by this rejection. Because of this, anthropology has been less successful in considering Christianity as an ethnographic object than it has in considering other religions. This collection is designed to advance a more subtle and less self-limiting anthropological study of Christianity. The contributors examine the contours of Christianity among diverse groups: Catholics in India, the Philippines, and Bolivia, and Seventh-Day Adventists in Madagascar; the Swedish branch of Word of Life, a charismatic church based in the United States; and Protestants in Amazonia, Melanesia, and Indonesia. Highlighting the wide variation in what it means to be Christian, the contributors reveal vastly different understandings and valuations of conversion, orthodoxy, Scripture, the inspired word, ritual, gifts, and the concept of heaven. In the process they bring to light how local Christian practices and beliefs are affected by encounters with colonialism and modernity, by the opposition between Catholicism and Protestantism, and by the proximity of other religions and belief systems. Together the contributors show that it not sufficient for anthropologists to assume that they know in advance what the Christian experience is; each local variation must be encountered on its own terms. Contributors. Cecilia Busby, Fenella Cannell, Simon Coleman, Peter Gow, Olivia Harris, Webb Keane, Eva Keller, David Mosse, Danilyn Rutherford, Christina Toren, Harvey Whitehouse

Author : Carolyn Moxley Rouse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520237940
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaged Surrender written by Carolyn Moxley Rouse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described is why the Islam gives African American women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. The author did her study among the women of the Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles.

Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137444827
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain written by Ronald Hutton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, amulets, and magical equipment. The contributors are the current experts in each area of the subject, and show between them how ample the evidence is and how important it is for an understanding of history.

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195131614
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Catholic Modernity? written by Charles Taylor and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dimensions of his intellectual commitment - dimensions left implicit in his philosophical writing.

Author : Kristin Norget
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520963369
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Catholicism written by Kristin Norget and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines.

Author : Ruy Llera Blanes
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382739
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Prophetic Trajectory written by Ruy Llera Blanes and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simão Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The book explains the historical, ethnic, spiritual, and identity transformations observed within the movement, and debates the politics of remembrance and heritage left behind after Toko's passing in 1984. Ultimately, it questions the categories of prophetism and charisma, as well as the intersections between mobility, memory, and belonging in the Atlantic Lusophone sphere.

Author : Joel Cabrita
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139917129
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church written by Joel Cabrita and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational evangelical literary culture, Nazaretha believers have patterned their lives upon the Christian Bible. They cast themselves as actors who enact scriptural drama upon African soil. But Nazaretha believers also believe the existing Christian Bible to be in need of updating and revision. For this reason, they have written further scriptures - a new 'Bible' - which testify to the miraculous work of their founding prophet, Shembe. Joel Cabrita's book charts the key role that these sacred texts play in making, breaking and contesting social power and authority, both within the church and more broadly in South African public life.