The Pursuit of Certainty : Religious and Cultural Formulations.
Başlık:
The Pursuit of Certainty : Religious and Cultural Formulations.
Yazar:
James, Wendy.
ISBN:
9780203450840
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Seri:
ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge
İçerik:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Series editor's preface -- Foreword: the pursuit of certainty -- Introduction: whatever happened to the Enlightenment? -- Managing tradition: 'superstition' and the making of national identity among Sudanese women refugees -- History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda -- Race, culture and -- what?: pluralist certainties in the United States -- Certain knowledge: the encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India -- Inventing certainties: the dakwah persona in Malaysia -- Powerful knowledge in a global Sufi cult: reflections on the poetics of travelling theories -- Topophilia, Zionism and 'certainty': making a place out of the space that became Israel again -- The politics of tolerance: Buddhists and Christians, truth and error in Sri Lanka -- Changing certainties and the move to a 'global' religion: medical knowledge and Islamization among Anii (Baseda) in the Republic of Benin -- Bourdieu and the diviner: knowledge and symbolic power in Yoruba divination -- Choking on the Quran: and other consuming parables from the western Indian Ocean front -- Cultural certainties and private doubts -- Name index -- Subject index.
Özet:
Although the world population faces movement, mixing and displacement on a larger scale than ever before, the result has not been a collapse of boundaries but an increase in the rise of new forms of ethnic, cultural and religious identity. Those based in the highly developed countries can extend global influence through wealth and sophisticated technology. The Pursuit of Certainty presents original case studies which explore the effect anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth. Several chapters focus on the rise of new certainties while others examine notions of diversity providing a critical perspective on the new religious movements and current popular orthodoxies relating to society and culture.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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