Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes

Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9780857455079
ISBN-13 : 0857455079
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Book Synopsis Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes by : Samuli Schielke

Download or read book Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes written by Samuli Schielke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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