What matters? : ethnographies of value in a not so secular age /
Over the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholars to rethink secularity and its relationship to society. Since classifying a person, activity, or experience as religious or otherwise is an important act of valuation, one that defines the characte...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Bender, Courtney. Taves, Ann, 1952- |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012. |
| Series: | Religion, culture, and public life.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Things of Value From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory
- Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds: Nineteenth-Century Psychologists and the Unfinished Subjugation of Superstition and Irrationality
- Religious and Secular, "Spiritual" and "Physical" in Ghana Volunteer Experience
- Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life Homeschooling the Enchanted Child: Ambivalent Attachments in the Domestic Southwest
- Mind Matters: Esalen's Sursem Group and the Ethnography of Consciousness
- Tribalism, Experience, and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index