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-
Formato: livro eletrônico Recurso Eletrônico
Idioma:English
Imprint: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
coleção:Religion, culture, and public life.
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Sumário:
  • 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