The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural FormulationsWendy James Psychology Press, 1995 - 316 páginas The peoples of the world are now facing economic integration and social interaction on a wider scale than ever before. But has this produced a greater sense of common reason, or shared world citizenship? Contemporary global communication, itself celebrating diversity, has paradoxically stimulated local commitments to exclusive ethnic, cultural and religious identity. The chapters in this book explore the ways in which anthropology can throw light on these diverging new 'certainties', often possessive of place, bodily substance or cultural heritage and often claiming divine justification. |
Contenido
whatever happened to the Enlightenment? | 1 |
Displacement and the search for redefinition | 15 |
History and the discourse of underdevelopment among | 45 |
Emerging world forms | 59 |
the encounter of global fundamentalism | 92 |
the dakwah persona in Malaysia | 112 |
reflections on | 134 |
making a place out | 161 |
Vernacular contexts of public reason and critique | 193 |
knowledge and symbolic power | 234 |
and other consuming parables from | 258 |
a professional dilemma? | 283 |
309 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formulations Wendy James Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formulations Wendy James Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formulations Wendy James Vista previa limitada - 1995 |
Términos y frases comunes
African Akinnaso Alur American Anii anthropology Arab argument arts students authority Bassila become Black Buddhist Bunyoro Cambridge century certainty chapter Christian church claims colonial contemporary context cult culture Daily dakwah dakwah movement debate disciples discourse diviner diviner's economic empirical English ethnic evangelists experience fundamentalist global Greece Greek groups Gush Emunim Hispanic ibid Idanre identity ideology ifá Islam Israel Israeli Jerusalem Jewish Jews key informants Kiryat Arba knowledge Lambek land language living logical London Madras Malalgoda Malaysia male Mayotte missionaries modern moral Muslim nation Nubian organization Oxford Oz veShalom political possession practice present Protestant Quran religion religious Religious Zionism rhetoric ritual saint science students sense shaikh social society spirits Sri Lanka structure Sudan Sufi Sufism symbolic tion Toronto tradition Uganda ukono University Press usrah village Wendy James West Bank Western word Yoruba Zindapir Zionist
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Sudanese Women in the United States: The Double Problem of Gender and Culture Asma M. Abdel Halim Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |