The Anthropology of Catholicism: A ReaderAimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines. |
Contents
PART ONE A GENEALOGY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY | 31 |
Excerpt from The Place of Grace in Anthropology | 52 |
Excerpt from Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage | 71 |
Excerpt from The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain | 89 |
Excerpt from Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion | 96 |
PART TWO CONTEMPORARY WORKS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY | 103 |
Heritage Work and Devotional Labor | 122 |
The Gender of Sin in Contemporary | 139 |
The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine | 201 |
A Catholic Body? Miracles Secularity and the Porous Self in Malta | 211 |
Experiments of Inculturation in a Catholic Charismatic Movement | 227 |
El Seņor de los Milagros | 243 |
Phenomenology and Religion | 256 |
PART THREE INTERVENTIONS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY | 271 |
Possession and Psychopathology Faith and Reason | 293 |
The Media of Sensation | 316 |
The Question of Tension in Syrian | 155 |
Rupture and Continuity | 170 |
The Virgin of Guadalupe and Spectacles of Catholic Evangelism | 184 |
List of Contributors | 357 |
Other editions - View all
The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader Kristin Norget,Valentina Napolitano,Maya Mayblin Limited preview - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
African anthropology of Catholicism anthropology of Christianity anthropology of religion argues Bandak baroque Becedas body Cameroon caretakers caste Catholic Charismatic Renewal Catholic Church Catholicism's CCRM century Christ Christian clergy concept congregation contemporary context crosses cultural Dalit death demonic devotion Dinka discourse divine doctrine edited embodied ethnographic eucharist evangelical example exorcism exorcists experience faith gender global grace Guadalupe healing Holy honor human images inculturation indigenous institutional Jesuit Jesus Kerizinen Latin living Mary Mass material meaning Merleau-Ponty migrants Milagros mission missionary modern movement Napolitano Norget notion parish particular Pentecostal phenomenology pilgrimage political practice prayer priests Protestant Protestantism relation religion ritual role Rome Rosary sacred saints scholars Second Vatican Council secular Seņor sensation sense sexual abuse shrine significant Simard social society spiritual St Besse survivors symbolic syncretism Syrian tarantism tension theological tion tradition University Press Vatican Vatican II village Virgin Virgin of Guadalupe women