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.

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