Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-594-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of “downloading” but also as a social process with its relational dimension.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berliner, David

Sarró, Ramon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. On Learning Religion: An Introduction

David Berliner and Ramon Sarró

Chapter 2. Learning to Believe: A Preliminary Approach

Carlo Severi

Chapter 3. Menstrual Slaps and First Blood Celebrations: Inference, Simulation and the Learning of Ritual

Michael Houseman

Chapter 4. The Accidental in Religious Instruction: Ideas and Convictions

David Parkin

Chapter 5. On Catching Up With Oneself: Learning to Know That One Means What One Does

Michael Lambek

Chapter 6. How Do You Learn to Know That it is God Who Speaks?

T.M. Luhrmann

Chapter 7. How to Learn in an Afro-Brazilian Spirit Possession Religion: Ontology and Multiplicity in Candomblé

Marcio Goldman

Chapter 8. Learning to be a Proper Medium: Middle-Class Womanhood and Spirit Mediumship at Christian Rationalist Séances in Cape Verde

João Vasconcelos

Chapter 9. Copyright and Authorship: Ritual Speech and the New Market of Words in Toraja

Aurora Donzelli

Chapter 10. Learning Faith: Young Christians and Catechism

Laurence Hérault

Chapter 11. What is Interesting about Chinese Religion

Charles Stafford

Chapter 12. The Sound of Witchcraft: Noise as Mediation in Religious Transmission

Michael Rowlands

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarró, Ramon
Ramon Sarró is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon. He read anthropology in London (PhD 1999). In 2000-2002 he was the Ioma Evans-Pritchard Junior Research Fellow at Saint Anne's College, Oxford. His publications include Surviving Iconoclasm: Religious and Political Transformation on the Upper Guinea Coast (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).

Berliner, David
David Berliner is an Assistant Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He received his PhD from University of Brussels (2002). In 2001 he was a visiting PhD student at Saint Cross College, Oxford, and in 2003-2005 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.

David Berliner is an Assistant Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He received his PhD from University of Brussels (2002). In 2001 he was a visiting PhD student at Saint Cross College, Oxford, and in 2003-2005 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.