Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec
Chapter 1. Divination and Islam: Existential Perspectives in the Study of Ritual and Religious Praxis in Senegal and Gambia
Knut Graw
Chapter 2. Postponing Piety in Urban Burkina Faso: Discussing Ideas on When to Start Acting as a Pious Muslim
Liza Debevec
Chapter 3. Everyday Religion, Ambiguity and Homosocial Relationships in Manitoba, Canada from 1911 to 1949
Alison R. Marshall
Chapter 4. 'Doing Things Properly': Religious Aspects in Everyday Sociality in Apiao, Chiloé
Giovanna Bacchiddu
Chapter 5. The Ordinary within the Extraordinary: Sainthood Making and Everyday Religious Practice in Lesvos, Greece
Séverine Rey
Chapter 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 Grazie
Evgenia Mesaritou
Chapter 7. Going to the Mulid: Street-smart Spirituality in Egypt
Jennifer Peterson
Chapter 8. Capitalist Ethics and the Spirit of Islamization in Egypt
Samuli Schielke
Afterword: Everyday Religion and the Contemporary World: The Un-Modern, or What Was Supposed to Have Disappeared but Did Not
Robert A. Orsi
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
