A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion

<p>List of Figures viii</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p>
<p>Preface and Acknowledgments xiv</p>
<p>What Is Religion for Anthropology?</p>
<p>And What Has Anthropology Brought to Religion ? 1<br />Michael Lambek</p>
<p>Part I Worlds and Intersections 33</p>
<p>1 Presence, Attachment, Origin: Ontologies of Incarnates 35<br />Philippe Descola</p>
<p>2 The Dynamic Reproduction of Hunter–Gatherers Ontologies and Values 50<br />Sylvie Poirier</p>
<p>3 Cohabiting an Interreligious Milieu: Reflections on Religious Diversity 69<br />Veena Das</p>
<p>4 Religious and Legal Particularism and Universality 85 <br />Winnifred Fallers Sullivan</p>
<p>Part II Epistemologies 101</p>
<p>5 Are Ancestors Dead? 103<br />Rita Astuti and Maurice Bloch</p>
<p>6 Coping with Religious Diversity: Incommensurability and Other Perspectives 118<br />Eva Spies</p>
<p>7 Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion 137<br />Michael Lambek</p>
<p>8 Religion and the Truth of Being 154<br />Paul Stoller</p>
<p>Part III Time and Ethics 169</p>
<p>9 Ethics 171<br />James Laidlaw</p>
<p>10 The Social and Political Theory of the Soul 189<br />Heonik Kwon</p>
<p>11 Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West 202<br />Fenella Cannell</p>
<p>12 The Work of Memory: Ritual Laments of the Dead and Korea s Cheju Massacre 223<br />Seong–nae Kim</p>
<p>13 The Globalization of Pentecostalism and the Limits of Globalization 239<br />Girish Daswani</p>
<p>Part IV Practices and Mediations 255</p>
<p>14 Food, Life, and Material Religion in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity 257<br />Tom Boylston</p>
<p>15 Trading with God: Islam, Calculation, Excess 274<br />Amira Mittermaier</p>
<p>16 Ritual Remains: Studying Contemporary Pilgrimage 294<br />Simon Coleman</p>
<p>17 Mediation and Immediacy: Sensational Forms, Semiotic Ideologies, and the Question of the Medium 309<br />Birgit Meyer</p>
<p>Part V Languages and Conversions 327</p>
<p>18 Translating God s Words 329<br />Wendy James</p>
<p>19 Christianity as a Polemical Concept 344<br />Pamela E. Klassen</p>
<p>20 Reconfiguring Humanity in Amazonia: Christianity and Change 363<br />Aparecida Vila&ccedil;a</p>
<p>21 Language in Christian Conversion 387<br />William F. Hanks</p>
<p>Part VI Persons and Histories 407</p>
<p>22 Canonizing Soviet Pasts in Contemporary Russia: The Case of Saint Matrona of Moscow 409<br />Jeanne Kormina</p>
<p>23 Reflections on Death, Religion, Identity, and the Anthropology of Religion 425<br />Ellen Badone</p>
<p>24 S pirits and Selves Revisited: Za r and Islam in Northern Sudan 444<br />Janice Boddy</p>
<p>Part VII Powers 469</p>
<p>25 The Political Landscape of Early State Religions 471<br />Edward Swenson</p>
<p>26 A Syariah Judiciary as a Global Assemblage: Islamization and Beyond in a Southeast Asian Context 489<br />Michael G. Peletz</p>
<p>27 The Catholicization of Neoliberalism 507<br />Andrea Muehlebach</p>
<p>28 The Sacred and the City: Modernity, Religion, and the Urban Form in Central Africa 528<br />Filip De Boeck</p>
<p>Index 549</p>