Bender / Taves What Matters?

Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-50468-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: A Columbia / SSRC Book

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Courtney

Taves, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Courtney Bender, associate professor of religion at Columbia University, is the author of The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination, winner of the 2011 AAP PROSE Award for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing in Theology/Religious Studies, and coeditor, with Pamela Klassen, of After Pluralism: Reimagining Models of Interreligious Engagement.

Ann Taves is professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and past president of the American Academy of Religion. Her most recent books include Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things, winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James, winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Philosophy and Religion.