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001 2008008517
003 DLC
005 20080602113951.0
008 080226s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008008517
020 $a9781845454098 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a184545409X (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn212893579
035 $a(OCoLC)212893579$z(OCoLC)156834471
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050 00 $aGN470$b.O65 2008
082 00 $a306.6$222
245 00 $aOn the margins of religion /$cedited by Frances Pine and João de Pina-Cabral.
260 $aNew York :$bBerghahn Books,$c2008.
300 $avi, 286 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOn the margins: an introduction / João Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine -- Homeless spirits: modern spiritualism, psychical research and the anthropology of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / João Vasconcelos -- The abominations of anthropology: Christianity, ethnographic taboos, and the meanings of "science" / Simon Coleman -- Religious logistics: African Christians, spirituality, and transportation / Thomas Kirsch -- Contested spaces: temple building and the re-creation of religious boundaries in contemporary urban India / Ursula Rao -- Bosnian neighborhoods revisited: tolerance, commitment, and Komšiluk in Sarajevo / Cornelia Sorabji -- Revival of Buddhist royal family commemorative ritual in Laos / Grant Evans -- Centres and margins: the organisation of extravagance as self-government in China / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Allies and subordinates: religious practice on the margins between Buddhistm and shamanism in southern Siberia / Galina Lindquist -- On celibate marriages: conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland / Agnieszka Kościańska -- Elders' cathedrals and childrens' marbles: dynamics of religious transmission among the Baga of Guinea / Ramon Sarró -- Geomancy, politics, and colonial encounters in rural Hong Kong / Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson -- The sacrifices of modernity in a Soviet-built steel town in Central India / Jonathan P. Parry.
650 0 $aAnthropology of religion.
650 0 $aReligion and sociology.
700 1 $aPine, Frances,$d1952-
700 1 $aPina-Cabral, João de.