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The anthropology of Catholicism : a reader / edited by Kristin Norget, Valentina Napolitano, and Maya Mayblin.

Contributor(s): Norget, Kristin [editor,, author.] | Napolitano, Valentina [editor,, author.] | Mayblin, Maya [editor,, author.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520288423; 0520288424; 9780520288447; 0520288440Subject(s): Catholic Church | Anthropology of religionDDC classification: 306.6/82 LOC classification: BX885 | .A59 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-355) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : The anthropology of Catholicism / Maya Mayblin, Kristin Norget, and Valentina Napolitano -- A genealogy of the anthropology of Catholicism -- Excerpt from "St. Besse: a study of an Alpine cult" / Robert Hertz -- Excerpt from "Tarantism and Catholicism" / Ernesto de Martino -- Excerpt from "The place of grace in anthropology" / Julian A. Pitt-Rivers -- Excerpt from "The Dinka and Catholicism" / Godfrey Lienhardt -- Excerpt from "Iconophily and iconoclasm in Marian pilgrimage" / Victor Turner and Edith Turner -- Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish valley / William A. Christian -- Excerpt from "The priest as agent of secularization in rural Spain" / Stanley H. Brandes -- Excerpt from "Women mystics and Eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century" / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Contemporary works in the anthropology of Catholicism -- "Complexio oppositorum?": religion, society, and power in the making of Catholicism in rural south India / David Mosse -- Marking memory: heritage work and devotional labour at Quebec's Croix de Chemin / Hillary Kaell -- Containment and contagion: the gender of sin in contemporary Catholicism / Maya Mayblin -- Opulence and simplicity: the question of tension in Syrian Catholicism / Andreas Bandak -- The paradox of charismatic Catholicism: rupture and continuity in a Q'eqchi'-Maya parish / Eric Hoenes del Pinal -- The Virgin of Guadalupe and the spectacle of Catholic evangelism in Mexico / Kristin Norget -- The rosary as a meditation on death at a Marian apparition shrine / Ellen Badone -- A Catholic body?: Miracles, secularity, and the porous self in Malta / Jon P. Mitchell -- Experiments of inculturation in a Catholic charismatic movement in Cameroon / Ludovic Lado -- On a political economy of political theology: El Señor de los Milagros / Valentina Napolitano -- Making a home in an unfortunate place: phenomenology and religion / J. Michelle Molina -- Interventions in the anthropology of Catholicism -- "We're all Catholics now" / Simon Coleman -- What is Catholic about the clergy sex abuse crisis? / Robert A. Orsi -- Possession and psychopathology, faith and reason / Thomas J. Csordas -- Catholicism and the study of religion / Birgit Meyer -- The media of sensation / Niklaus Largier.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West BX885 .A59 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903516777

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-355) and index.

Introduction : The anthropology of Catholicism / Maya Mayblin, Kristin Norget, and Valentina Napolitano -- Part I. A genealogy of the anthropology of Catholicism -- Excerpt from "St. Besse: a study of an Alpine cult" / Robert Hertz -- Excerpt from "Tarantism and Catholicism" / Ernesto de Martino -- Excerpt from "The place of grace in anthropology" / Julian A. Pitt-Rivers -- Excerpt from "The Dinka and Catholicism" / Godfrey Lienhardt -- Excerpt from "Iconophily and iconoclasm in Marian pilgrimage" / Victor Turner and Edith Turner -- Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish valley / William A. Christian -- Excerpt from "The priest as agent of secularization in rural Spain" / Stanley H. Brandes -- Excerpt from "Women mystics and Eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century" / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Part II. Contemporary works in the anthropology of Catholicism -- "Complexio oppositorum?": religion, society, and power in the making of Catholicism in rural south India / David Mosse -- Marking memory: heritage work and devotional labour at Quebec's Croix de Chemin / Hillary Kaell -- Containment and contagion: the gender of sin in contemporary Catholicism / Maya Mayblin -- Opulence and simplicity: the question of tension in Syrian Catholicism / Andreas Bandak -- The paradox of charismatic Catholicism: rupture and continuity in a Q'eqchi'-Maya parish / Eric Hoenes del Pinal -- The Virgin of Guadalupe and the spectacle of Catholic evangelism in Mexico / Kristin Norget -- The rosary as a meditation on death at a Marian apparition shrine / Ellen Badone -- A Catholic body?: Miracles, secularity, and the porous self in Malta / Jon P. Mitchell -- Experiments of inculturation in a Catholic charismatic movement in Cameroon / Ludovic Lado -- On a political economy of political theology: El Señor de los Milagros / Valentina Napolitano -- Making a home in an unfortunate place: phenomenology and religion / J. Michelle Molina -- Part III. Interventions in the anthropology of Catholicism -- "We're all Catholics now" / Simon Coleman -- What is Catholic about the clergy sex abuse crisis? / Robert A. Orsi -- Possession and psychopathology, faith and reason / Thomas J. Csordas -- Catholicism and the study of religion / Birgit Meyer -- The media of sensation / Niklaus Largier.

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