Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2011
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
256
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1.9 cm
Gewicht
472 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84545-482-1
Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience. The focus on women as religious practitioners is linked to the idea of religion as a primary mode of production that creates and helps to maintain human reserves in a fast changing, male-dominated world. It is through this mechanism that the Catholic Church, the oldest existing bureaucratic agency of globalization, has maintained its power. Exploring aspects of spirit experiences, trance, the cult of saints, official ecclesiastical cults, and especially witchcraft, this book reveals the explosive, sometimes violent creativity of religion, its relation to magic, and its multi-facetted social value for humans as reflected in the religiously based, pragmatic realism of everyday life in the Mediterranean.
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