02809nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10394206 CaPaEBR 20260707180202.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 080226s2008 nyua sb 001 0 eng 2008008517 9781845454098 (hardback : alk. paper) 184545409X (hardback : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)647933260 GN470 .O65 2008eb 306.6 22 103505 83382 On the margins of religion [electronic resource] / edited by Frances Pine and João de Pina-Cabral. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008. vi, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. On the margins: an introduction / João Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine -- Homeless spirits: modern spiritualism, psychical research and the anthropology of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / João Vasconcelos -- The abominations of anthropology: Christianity, ethnographic taboos, and the meanings of "science" / Simon Coleman -- Religious logistics: African Christians, spirituality, and transportation / Thomas Kirsch -- Contested spaces: temple building and the re-creation of religious boundaries in contemporary urban India / Ursula Rao -- Bosnian neighborhoods revisited: tolerance, commitment, and Komšiluk in Sarajevo / Cornelia Sorabji -- Revival of Buddhist royal family commemorative ritual in Laos / Grant Evans -- Centres and margins: the organisation of extravagance as self-government in China / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Allies and subordinates: religious practice on the margins between Buddhistm and shamanism in southern Siberia / Galina Lindquist -- On celibate marriages: conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland / Agnieszka Kościańska -- Elders' cathedrals and childrens' marbles: dynamics of religious transmission among the Baga of Guinea / Ramon Sarró -- Geomancy, politics, and colonial encounters in rural Hong Kong / Rubie S. Watson and James L. Watson -- The sacrifices of modernity in a Soviet-built steel town in Central India / Jonathan P. Parry. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Anthropology of religion. 146195 Religion and sociology. 54077 Electronic books. local 190 Pine, Frances, 1952- 146196 Pina-Cabral, João de. 146197 ebrary, Inc. 191 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10394206 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 103505 83382