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As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of “downloading” but also as a social process with its relational dimension.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Chapter 1. On Learning Religion: An Introduction David Berliner and Ramon Sarró Chapter 2. Learning to Believe: A Preliminary Approach Carlo Severi Chapter 3. Menstrual Slaps and First Blood Celebrations: Inference, Simulation and the Learning of Ritual Michael Houseman Chapter 4. The Accidental in Religious Instruction: Ideas and Convictions David Parkin Chapter 5. On Catching Up With Oneself: Learning to Know That One Means What One Does Michael Lambek Chapter 6. How Do You Learn to Know That it is God Who Speaks? T.M. Luhrmann Chapter 7. How to Learn in an Afro-Brazilian Spirit Possession Religion: Ontology and Multiplicity in Candomblé Marcio Goldman Chapter 8. Learning to be a Proper Medium: Middle-Class Womanhood and Spirit Mediumship at Christian Rationalist Séances in Cape Verde João Vasconcelos Chapter 9. Copyright and Authorship: Ritual Speech and the New Market of Words in Toraja Aurora Donzelli Chapter 10. Learning Faith: Young Christians and Catechism Laurence Hérault Chapter 11. What is Interesting about Chinese Religion Charles Stafford Chapter 12. The Sound of Witchcraft: Noise as Mediation in Religious Transmission Michael Rowlands Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

About the Author :
David Berliner is an Assistant Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He received his PhD from University of Brussels (2002). In 2001 he was a visiting PhD student at Saint Cross College, Oxford, and in 2003-2005 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.

Review :
“This volume demonstrates that a formidable barrier divides social and the cognitive anthropologists. Sperber, Bloch, Whitehouse, and even the very Durkheimian Mary Douglas have been encouraging a merger between cognitive studies, hermeneutics, and ethnography, while others have been more reticent or antagonistic…Either way, this work has helped to advance the discussion.”   ·  Anthropos “This volume is a valuable contribution to an emergent field of study, and will appeal to scholars who seek new interdisciplinary approaches.”   ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845453749
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Anthropological Approaches
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1845453743
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 17 Methodology & History in Anthropology
  • Weight: 472 gr


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