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Berghahn Books Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes An Anthropology of Everyday Religion 2012 Edition by Samuli Schielke, Liza Debevec
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. Table of contents :- IntroductionSamuli Schielke and Liza DebevecChapter 1. Divination and Islam: Existential Perspectives in the Study of Ritual and Religious Praxis in Senegal and GambiaKnut GrawChapter 2. Postponing Piety in Urban Burkina Faso: Discussing Ideas on When to Start Acting as a Pious MuslimLiza DebevecChapter 3. Everyday Religion, Ambiguity and Homosocial Relationships in Manitoba, Canada from 1911 to 1949Alison R. MarshallChapter 4. 'Doing Things Properly': Religious Aspects in Everyday Sociality in Apiao, ChiloeGiovanna BacchidduChapter 5. The Ordinary within the Extraordinary: Sainthood Making and Everyday Religious Practice in Lesvos, GreeceSeverine ReyChapter 6. Say a Little Hallo to Padre Pio: Production and Consumption of Space in the Construction of the Sacred at the Shrine of Santa Maria delle GrazieEvgenia MesaritouChapter 7. Going to the Mulid: Street-smart Spirituality in EgyptJennifer PetersonChapter 8. Capitalist Ethics and the Spirit of Islamization in EgyptSamuli SchielkeAfterword: Everyday Religion and the Contemporary World: The Un-Modern, or What Was Supposed to Have Disappeared but Did NotRobert A. OrsiNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex