tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57112499605854214312024-02-08T10:32:01.977-08:00ENCOUNTERS OF BODY AND SOUL IN CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS PRACTICES: Anthropological ReflectionsThis is a blog about the book 'Encounters of Body and Soul in contemporary Religious Practices: Anthropological Reflections', edited by Anna Fedele and Ruy Llera Blanes, and published by Berghahn Books (EASA series) in September 2011.Encounters of Body and Soul (book)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16683690342832549724noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5711249960585421431.post-63992442264631372332012-11-29T02:14:00.000-08:002012-11-29T02:14:49.767-08:00Reviews<br />
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Encounters of Body and Soul (book)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16683690342832549724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5711249960585421431.post-11226927925942564002011-10-14T06:30:00.000-07:002011-10-14T06:30:34.504-07:00Notes on Contributors<b>Giovanna Bacchiddu</b> received her doctorate in social anthropology at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of a number of articles on<br />
religion, sociality and kinship in Apiao, Chiloé, Chile. She is currently<br />
working on a project on transnational adoption, investigating perceptions<br />
of relatedness and identity amongst Chilean children adopted by Italian<br />
parents.<br />
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<b>Katia Ballacchino</b> obtained her PhD in ethnology and ethno-anthropology from the University ‘Sapienza’ in Rome. She is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Molise. Her main research topics are: second-generation immigrants in Italy; social and cultural mediation; visual ethnography; and popular traditions and the inventory of the intangible cultural heritage in the South of Italy. She is author of several publications about these topics.<br />
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<b>Ruy Llera Blanes</b>, anthropologist, is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Anthropology Department). He specializes in the anthropology of religion, having previously worked with Pentecostal movements in Southern Europe. He is currently working with African prophetic movements, discussing issues of knowledge, transmission, memory, rationalism, leadership and charisma.<br />
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<b>Aleksandra Cimpric</b>, anthropologist, is a PhD student at the University<br />
of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) and a member of CEMAf (Centre d’Etudes<br />
des Mondes Africains). She is doing a research work in Central African<br />
Republic on the transformation of symbolic representations related to<br />
water, namely, talimbi witchcraft. Her work is largely concerned with the<br />
imagery of occult forces in everyday life of Central African population, as<br />
well as violence as a result of witchcraft accusations. Her current interests<br />
include also Christianity and new religious movements, violence, juridical<br />
anthropology and identities in contemporary Central African Republic.<br />
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<b>Keith Egan</b> is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where he received his PhD in anthropology in 2007. He is currently researching the construction of gender, faith and belonging among Irish pilgrims at Catholic shrines in Europe.<br />
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<b>Anna Fedele</b> explores in her work the intersections of gender and religion, the importance of corporeality in religious contexts, and ritual creativity. She has done extensive fieldwork on alternative pilgrimages to French shrines and is the author of Looking for Mary Magdalene (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) of the Lisbon University Institute and a research fellow at the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris.<br />
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<b>Kim E. Knibbe</b> is an anthropologist and sociologist of religion and works as assistant professor at the University of Groningen. The research on which her contribution is based was carried out at the VU University in Amsterdam within an international research project titled ‘transnational Nigerian-initiated churches, networks and believers in three northern countries in Europe’. This project was initiated by the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (see http://www.glopent.net). She has done research on religion and spirituality in the Netherlands, Nigeria and the Philippines.<br />
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<b>Ann Maria Ostenfeld-Rosenthal</b>, Phd, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research includes the following keywords: spiritual healing, functional disorders, placebo, health and spirituality, doctor-patient relationship, Denmark, ritual, social change, popular religion, pilgrimages, gender, identity, regionalism and Spain.<br />
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<b>João Rickli</b> completed his PhD research in 2010 at the Vrije Universiteit<br />
in Amsterdam, with a scholarship from the Brazilian Ministry of Education. He investigated Dutch Protestant missionary and diaconal initiatives in Brazil. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the VU University in Amsterdam.<br />
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<b>Eugenia Roussou</b>, anthropologist, is a postdoctoral researcher at CRIA/<br />
FCSH, New University of Lisbon. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Greece on the subjects of religion, ritual performativity and material manifestations of belief. She is currently working on the influence of alternative spiritualities in contemporary Portuguese religiosity.<br />
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<b>Andrew Spiegel</b> is associate professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town where he has taught for over thirty years, ten of them as head of department. He has published on a wide variety of southern African topics, most recently on racism, on the concept of tradition and its uses in the southern African context, on the challenges of teaching social anthropology in a South African context and, in collaboration with a civil engineer and an environmentalist, on the social implications of drainage problems in informal settlements.<br />
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<b>Silke Sponheuer</b> is a practising eurythmist who trained and worked for seventeen years at the Hamburg Eurythmy School. She has been director of the Kairos Eurythmy Training programme in Cape Town for fifteen years and has choreographed and directed various stage eurythmy performances. In 2009 she was awarded a master’s degree in dance (choreography – with distinction) by the University of Cape Town.<br />
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<b>Ehler Voss</b> has studied anthropology, philosophy and German language and literature. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Leipzig, Germany, and is currently researching 19th century European spiritism at the University of Siegen, Germany.Encounters of Body and Soul (book)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16683690342832549724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5711249960585421431.post-71079186915431698742011-10-14T06:16:00.000-07:002011-10-14T06:16:47.394-07:00CONTENTS OF THE BOOK<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Contents</h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">List of Illustrations vii</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Acknowledgements ix</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Introduction x</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Anna Fedele and Ruy Llera Blanes</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Part I. Bodies and Souls in Catholic Settings</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 1. ‘I want to feel the Camino in my legs’. Trajectories</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">of Walking on the Camino de Santiago 3</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Keith Egan</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 2. Holding the Saint in One’s Arms. Miracles and</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Exchange in Apiao, Southern Chile 23</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Giovanna Bacchiddu</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 3. Embodying Devotion, Embodying Passion.</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The Italian Tradition of The Festa dei Gigli in Nola 43</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Katia Ballacchino</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Part II. Corporeality, Belief and Human Mobility</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 4. The Body and the World. Missionary Performances</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">and the Experience of the World in the Protestant</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Church in the Netherlands 69</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">João Rickli</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 5. ‘How To Deal with the Dutch’. The Local and</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">the Global in the Habitus of the Saved Soul 91</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Kim Knibbe</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 6. Is Witchcraft Embodied? Representations of</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">the Body in Talimbi Witchcraft 109</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Aleksandra Cimpric</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 8. Reenchanted Bodies. The Signifi cance of the</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Spiritual Dimension in Danish Healing Rituals 151</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Ann Ostenfeld-Rosenthal</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 9. The Struggle for Sovereignty. The Interpretation</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">of Bodily Experiences in Anthropology and</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">among Mediumistic Healers in Germany 168</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Ehler Voss</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chapter 10. Transforming Musical Soul into Bodily Practice.</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Tone Eurythmy, Anthroposophy and</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Underlying Structures 179</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Andrew Spiegel and Silke Sponheuer</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Notes on Contributors 203</span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Subject Index</span></h3></span></h3>Encounters of Body and Soul (book)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16683690342832549724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5711249960585421431.post-6847858277132280102011-10-13T12:27:00.000-07:002011-10-14T05:47:17.899-07:00Description<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or soul) led to a distinction between non-material, spiritual experiences (<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span data-scayt_word="i.e" data-scaytid="1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">i.e</span></span>., related to the soul) and physical, mechanical experiences (<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span data-scayt_word="i.e" data-scaytid="2" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">i.e</span></span>., related to the body). However, recent developments in medical science on the one hand and challenges to <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span data-scayt_word="universalist" data-scaytid="5" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">universalist</span></span> conceptions of belief and spirituality on the other have resulted in “body” and “soul” losing the reassuring solid contours they had in the past. Yet, in “Western culture,” the body–soul duality is alive, not least in academic and media discourses. This volume pursues the ongoing debates and discusses the importance of the body and how it is perceived in contemporary religious faith: what happens when “body” and “soul” are un-separated entities? Is it possible, even for anthropologists and<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span data-scayt_word="ethnographers" data-scaytid="6" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">ethnographers</span></span>, to escape from “natural dualism”? The contributors here present research in novel empirical contexts, the benefits and limits of the old dichotomy are discussed, and new theoretical strategies proposed.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Anna <span data-scayt_word="Fedele" data-scaytid="47" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fedele</span> </strong>explores in her work the intersections of gender and religion, the importance of corporeality in religious contexts, and ritual creativity. She has done extensive fieldwork on alternative pilgrimages to French shrines and is the author of <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Looking for Mary Magdalene</em> (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centro em <span data-scayt_word="Rede" data-scaytid="48" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rede</span> de <span data-scayt_word="Investigação" data-scaytid="121" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Investigação</span> em <span data-scayt_word="Antropologia" data-scaytid="50" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Antropologia</span> (<span data-scayt_word="CRIA" data-scaytid="75" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">CRIA</span>) of the Lisbon University Institute and a research fellow at the <span data-scayt_word="Groupe" data-scaytid="76" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Groupe</span> de <span data-scayt_word="Sociologie" data-scaytid="77" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sociologie</span> <span data-scayt_word="Politique" data-scaytid="78" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Politique</span> et Morale of the <span data-scayt_word="École" data-scaytid="51" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">École</span> des <span data-scayt_word="Hautes" data-scaytid="52" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hautes</span> <span data-scayt_word="Études" data-scaytid="53" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Études</span> en Sciences <span data-scayt_word="Sociales" data-scaytid="54" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sociales</span> of Paris.</span><br />
<div style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span data-scayt_word="Ruy" data-scaytid="18" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ruy</span></span></span></span> <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span data-scayt_word="Llera" data-scaytid="19" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Llera</span></span></span></span> <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span data-scayt_word="Blanes" data-scaytid="20" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Blanes</span></span></span></span></strong> is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences in the Department of Anthropology. He has specialized in the anthropology of religion, having worked on Pentecostal movements in southern Europe. Currently, he is working with African prophetic movements, discussing issues of leadership, charisma, memory, transmission, knowledge and rationalism.</span></div>Encounters of Body and Soul (book)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16683690342832549724noreply@blogger.com0