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Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion

By Samuli Schielke , Liza Debevec

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2012
ISBN
0857455060, 9780857455062
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
622 kB (636775 bytes)
Series
Easa
Pages
184\175
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-08-28 16:41:52

Description

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent, and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.

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