{"product_id":"learning-religion-anthropological-approaches-9781845453749","title":"Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“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.” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Anthropos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“This volume is a valuable contribution to an emergent field of study, and will appeal to scholars who seek new interdisciplinary approaches.” \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Social Anthropology\/Anthropologie sociale\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e On Learning Religion: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Berliner\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRamon Sarró\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Learning to Believe: A Preliminary Approach\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCarlo Severi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Menstrual Slaps and First Blood Celebrations: Inference, Simulation and the Learning of Ritual\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Houseman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Accidental in Religious Instruction: Ideas and Convictions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDavid Parkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e On Catching Up With Oneself: Learning to Know That One Means What One Does\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Lambek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e How Do You Learn to Know That it is God Who Speaks?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eT.M. Luhrmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e How to Learn in an Afro-Brazilian Spirit Possession Religion: Ontology and Multiplicity in Candomblé\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarcio Goldman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Learning to be a Proper Medium: Middle-Class Womanhood and Spirit Mediumship at Christian Rationalist Séances in Cape Verde\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJoão Vasconcelos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Copyright and Authorship: Ritual Speech and the New Market of Words in Toraja\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAurora Donzelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Learning Faith: Young Christians and Catechism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eLaurence Hérault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e What is Interesting about Chinese Religion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCharles Stafford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e The Sound of Witchcraft: Noise as Mediation in Religious Transmission\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Rowlands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042973647191,"sku":"9781845453749","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845453749.jpg?v=1750956470","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/learning-religion-anthropological-approaches-9781845453749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}