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Across the boundaries of belief : contemporary issues in the anthropology of religion / [edited by] Morton Klass, Maxine Weisgrau.

Contributor(s): Klass, Morton, 1927-2001 | Weisgrau, Maxine K
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999Description: viii, 416 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813326958 (pbk.); 081332694X (hardcover)Subject(s): Ethnology -- Religious aspects | ReligionDDC classification: 306.6 LOC classification: BL256 | .K565 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-405) and index.
Contents:
Anthropologists versus missionaries / Claude E. Stipe -- From Tupã to the land without evil / Judith Shapiro -- Shamanism and Christianity / Sergei Kan -- Reflections on Christianity in China / Morton H. Fried -- Menstruation and reproduction / Marla N. Powers -- Domestication of religion / Susan Sered -- Becoming a mujercita / Valentina Napolitano -- Erotic anthropology / Deborah A. Elliston -- Exorcists, psychiatrists, and the problems of possession in Northwest Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp -- Woman who wanted to be her father / Yoram Bilu -- Hypnosis and trance induction in the surgeries of Brazilian spiritist healer-mediums / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Pockets full of mistakes / Douglas Hollan -- Bandits, beggars, and ghosts / Robert P. Weller -- Muslim identity and secularism in contemporary Turkey / Emelie A. Olson -- Interpretation of politics / Peter M. Whiteley -- Cargoism in Irian Jaya today / Benny Giay and Jan A. Godschalk -- Transnational popular culture and the global spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement / Neil J. Savishinsky -- On founders and followers / Benton Johnson -- Convicted by the Holy Spirit / Susan F. Harding.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-405) and index.

Anthropologists versus missionaries / Claude E. Stipe -- From Tupã to the land without evil / Judith Shapiro -- Shamanism and Christianity / Sergei Kan -- Reflections on Christianity in China / Morton H. Fried -- Menstruation and reproduction / Marla N. Powers -- Domestication of religion / Susan Sered -- Becoming a mujercita / Valentina Napolitano -- Erotic anthropology / Deborah A. Elliston -- Exorcists, psychiatrists, and the problems of possession in Northwest Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp -- Woman who wanted to be her father / Yoram Bilu -- Hypnosis and trance induction in the surgeries of Brazilian spiritist healer-mediums / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Zar as modernization in contemporary Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Pockets full of mistakes / Douglas Hollan -- Bandits, beggars, and ghosts / Robert P. Weller -- Muslim identity and secularism in contemporary Turkey / Emelie A. Olson -- Interpretation of politics / Peter M. Whiteley -- Cargoism in Irian Jaya today / Benny Giay and Jan A. Godschalk -- Transnational popular culture and the global spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement / Neil J. Savishinsky -- On founders and followers / Benton Johnson -- Convicted by the Holy Spirit / Susan F. Harding.

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