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Table of Contents:

• Divergent modes of religiosity in West Africa / J.D.Y. Peel
• Modes of religiosity and the legacy of Ernest Gellner / David Shankland
• Is image to doctrine as speech to writing? Modes of communication and the origins of religion / Jack Goody
• Ritual and deference / Maurice Block
• The doctrinal mode and evangelical Christianity in the United States / Brian Malley
• Embedded modes of religiosity in Indic renouncer religions / James Laidlaw
• Conceptualizing from within : divergent religious modes from Asian modernist perspectives / Susan Bayly
• Late medieval Christianity, Balinese Hinduism, and the doctrinal mode of religiosity / Leo Howe
• Religious doctrine or experience : a matter of seeing, learning, or doing / Gilbert Lewis
• Universalistic orientations of an imagistic mode of religiosity : the case of the West African Poro cult / Christian K. Højbjerg
• Toward a comparative anthropology of religion / Harvey Whitehouse.

Contributors:

Whitehouse, Harvey

Laidlaw, James

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Cognitive science of religion series

Subjects:

Ethnology — Religious aspects — Congresses

Religion — Philosophy — Congresses

Whitehouse, Harvey — Congresses

Whitehouse, Harvey

Ethnology

Religion — Philosophy

Religion

Ethnology — Religious aspects

Genres:

Conference papers and proceedings

General Notes:

Based on 3 conferences held 2001-2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

BL256 .R59 2004

ISBNs:

0759106169 (cloth, alk. paper)
0759106177 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2004001231

OCLC Numbers:

54365082