BOOKS - Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
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Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes: An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
Author: Joska Samuli Schielke
Year: January 1, 2012
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 568 KB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2012
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 568 KB
Language: English
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.