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Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	"How Long This Road" Race, Religion, and the Legacy of C. Eric Lincoln Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice Edited by Alton B. Pollard III and Love Henry Whelchel, Jr. Palgrave Macmillan In light of the recent death of C. Eric Lincoln, the renowned theorist of race and religion, scholars came together and created this compelling collection that...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Connected Places Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India Religion/Culture/Critique Anne Feldhaus Palgrave Macmillan Connected Places examines the words and actions of people who live in regions in the state of Maharashtra in western India to illustrate the idea that regions...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Body/Meaning/Healing Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Thomas J. Csordas Palgrave Macmillan Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as "religious healing?" In what sense is the human body a cultural...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Islam Obscured The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Daniel Varisco Palgrave Macmillan Islam Obscured is a critical analysis of the rhetoric in representing Islam in several widely-read anthropological texts, as well as an assessment of the role...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber's Legacy Basit Bilal Koshul Palgrave Macmillan One of Max Weber's contemporaries described him as "a child of the Enlightenment born too late" whose work is a "vitriolic attack on religion." Subsequent...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	The Road to Clarity Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Eva Keller Palgrave Macmillan The book examines people's commitment to Seventh-day Adventism in Madagascar and the contradictions involved in being an Adventist and at the same time being...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Yoruba in Diaspora An African Church in London Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Hermione Harris Palgrave Macmillan The Nigerian Diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Muslim Voices and Lives in the Contemporary World Edited by Frances Trix, John Walbridge, and Linda Walbridge Palgrave Macmillan Muslim Voices and Lives in the Contemporary World tells the stories of eleven remarkable people in the Islamic world, with each account written by an American...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Christianity in the Local Context Southern Baptists in the Philippines Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Brian M. Howell Palgrave Macmillan How do Filipino Baptists who sing in English, quote from James Dobson, and download sermon illustrations from Alabama understand themselves, and their faith,...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Missions and Conversions Creating the Montagnard-Dega Refugee Community Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Thomas Pearson Palgrave Macmillan This study offers a fresh reading of religious conversion by analyzing a variety of “missionaries” that sought to influence the Montagnard-Dega refugee. Thomas...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China Ritual, Complicity, Community DJ W. Hatfield Palgrave Macmillan Through an examination of the pilgrimages to China that enveloped Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hatfield advances anthropological understandings of...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Becoming Muslim Culture, Mind and Society Anna Mansson McGinty Palgrave Macmillan While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	An Islamic Court in Context An Ethnographic Study of Judicial Reasoning Erin E. Stiles Palgrave Macmillan This perceptive ethnographic study offers insight into the workings of the contemporary Islamic legal system. Based on fieldwork in Zanzibar, Stiles sheds...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Gender, Catholicism, and Morality in Brazil Virtuous Husbands, Powerful Wives Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Maya Mayblin Palgrave Macmillan Through the ethnography of a Catholic community in Northeast Brazil, Maya Mayblin offers a vivid and provocative rethink of gendered portrayals of Catholic...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia From the 16th to the 21st Century Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Thomas Gibson Palgrave Macmillan Honorable Mention for the 2008 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion! The roots of contemporary Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia lie in the...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Shamans, Spirituality, and Cultural Revitalization Explorations in Siberia and Beyond Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer Palgrave Macmillan Many voices clamor to be heard in debates about whether shamans cure, and whether shamanic spirituality is worth continuing or recovering in the 21rst century....

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Peter S. Cahn Palgrave Macmillan Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Militant Publics in India Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity Arafaat A. Valiani Palgrave Macmillan This creative study explores how Mohandas Gandhi's celebrated concept of satyagraha (non-violence) was eclipsed by the xenophobic Hindu nationalist movement...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	The Halal Frontier Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Johan Fischer Palgrave Macmillan Halal: Arabic,literally "permissible" or "lawful." Johan Fischer's illuminating studyproves that in the modern world, halal is no longer an expression of...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Spirits without Borders Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Karen Fjelstad and Nguyen Thi Hien Palgrave Macmillan An ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam’s Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual, this book is the...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Faith in Objects American Missionary Expositions in the Early Twentieth Century Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Erin L. Hasinoff Palgrave Macmillan In the early twentieth century, missionary expositions were a central event in the religious life of many Americans. They also converged with the research...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	The Christianity of Culture Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Liana Chua Palgrave Macmillan In recent years, anthropologists have increasingly viewed Christian conversion as a form of rupture from the past. But what happens if the people with whom...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Questioning French Secularism Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Jennifer A. Selby Palgrave Macmillan Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of Muslim women's rights....

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Communitas The Anthropology of Collective Joy Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Edith Turner Palgrave Macmillan In this seminal work, Edith Turner extends the concept of communitas that Victor Turner developed nearly four decades ago. Communitas is inspired...

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