Religion

[Posted by Secil Dagtas, April 2012]

  • SECULARISM
  • CHRISTIANITY
  • ISLAM
  • MAGIC, SPIRITUALISM and WITCHCRAFT
  • RITUAL and EMBODIMENT
  • HINDUISM
  • JUDAISM
  • BUDDHISM
  • RELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

 

SECULARISM

Witchcraft, Bureucraft, and the Social Life of (US)aid in Haiti
Erica Caple James
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2012, Vol. 27, No. 1: 50-75
Supplemental Material

Landmarks in the Critical Study of Secularism
Matthew Scherer
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 621-632

Is There a Secular Body?
Charles Hirshkind
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 633–647

Some Theses on Secularism
William E. Connolly
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 648–656

Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics
Talal Asad
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 657–675

Disciplines of Prescence in Modern Turkey: Discourse, Companionship, and the Mass Media of Islamic Practice
Brian Silverstein
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1: 188-153
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Emotion, Performance, and Temporality in Arab Music: Reflections on Tarab
Jonathan H. Shannon
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2003, Vol 18, No. 1: 72-98

The Sacred in the Scientific: Ambiguous Practices of Science in Tibetan Medicine
Vincanne Adams
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2001, Vol 16, No. 4: 542-575

Diversity with a Difference: Adat and the New Order in Aru
Patricia Spyer
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1996 Vol. 11, No. 1: 25–50

CHRISTIANITY

On Affective Labor in Post-Fordist Italy
Andrea Muehlebach
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2011, Vol. 26, No. 1: 59-82
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Anthropology, Theology, Critical Pedagogy: A Conversation with Jean Comaroff and David Kyuman Kim
Cultural Anthropology May 2011, Vol. 26, No. 2: 158–178

The Cross Politics of Ecuador's Penal State
Chris Garces
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 3: 459–496
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Comedians, Pastors, and the Miraculous Agency of Charisma in Ghana
Jesse Weaver Shipley
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 3: 523-552
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Coincidence and Consequence: Marianism and the Mass Media in the Global Philippines
Deirdre de la Cruz
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 3: 455-488
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Moral Ambitions of Grace: The Paradox of Compassion and Accountability in Evangelical Faith-Based Activism
Omri Elisha

Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1: 154-189

Displacing Violence: Making Pentecostal Memory in Postwar Sierra Leone
Rosalind Shaw
Cultural Anthropology Feb 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1: 66-93
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Sincerity, "Modernity," and the Protestants
Webb Keane

Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2002, Vol 17, No. 1: 65-92

Hunting for the Virgin: Meat, Money, and Memory in Tetiz, Yucatán
Paul K. Eiss
Cultural Anthropology Aug 2002 Vol 17, No. 3: 291–330

Of Ships and Saints: History, Memory, and Place in the Making of Moreno Mexican Identity
Laura Lewis

Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2001, Vol 16, No. 1: 62-82

ISLAM

The Rhythmic Beat of the Revolution in Iran
Michael M. J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 3: 497–543
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Ethics, Iconoclasm, and Qur'anic Art in Indonesia
Kenneth M. George
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 589–621
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Spiritual Economies: Islam and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Indonesia
Daromir Rudnyckyj
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 1: 104–141
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Beyond the Glitter: Belly Dance and Neoliberal Gentrification in Istanbul
Öykü Potuoğlu-Cook
Cultural Anthropology, Nov. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4: 633-660
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Disciplines of Prescence in Modern Turkey: Discourse, Companionship, and the Mass Media of Islamic Practice
Brian Silverstein
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1: 188-153
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Fashions and Fundamentalisms In Fin-De-Siècle Yemen: Chador Barbie and Islamic Socks
Anne Meneley
Cultural Anthropology May 2007, Vol. 22, No. 2: 214-243
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The Measure of Mercy
Arzoo Osanloo

Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4: 570-602

Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity
Katherine Pratt Ewing
Cultural Anthropology May 2006, Vol. 21, No. 2: 265–294

Of Children and Jinn: An Inquiry into an Unexpected Friendship during Uncertain Times
Naveeda Khan
Cultural Anthropology May 2006, Vol. 21, No. 2: 234-264

Purity, Soul Food, and Sunni Islam: Explorations at the Intersection of Consumption and Resistance
Carolyn Rouse and Janet Hoskins
Cultural Anthropology May 2004, Vol. 19, No. 2: 226-249

Notes on Jewish-Muslim Relationships: Revisiting the Vanishing Moroccan Jewish Community
Andre Levy

Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2003, Vol 18, No. 3: 365-397

Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival
Saba Mahmood

Cultural Anthropology May 2001, Vol 16, No. 2: 202-236

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Civic Virtue and Religious Reason: An Islamic Counterpublic
Charles Hirschkind

Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2001, Vol 16, No. 1: 3-34

Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah: Zikr and the Sacralizing of Space among British Muslims
Pnina Werbner
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1996, Vol. 11, No. 3: 309-338

MAGIC, SPIRITUALISM and WITCHCRAFT

Witchcraft, Bureucraft, and the Social Life of (US)aid in Haiti
Erica Caple James
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2012, Vol. 27, No. 1: 50-75

Supplemental Material

Remains: to be Seen. Third Encounter between State and "Customary" in Northern Mozambique
Juan M. Obarrio
Cultural Anthropology May 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2: 263–300

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Recovering True Selves in the Electro-Spiritual Field of Universal Love
Nickola Pazderic

Cultural Anthropology May 2004, Vol. 19, No. 2: 196-225

Traces of Folk Medicine in Jaunpur
Jean M. Langford

Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2003, Vol 18, No. 3: 271-303

The Truth of Sorcery
James T. Siegel

Cultural Anthropology May 2003, Vol 18, No. 2: 135-155

Imitation Is Far More Than the Sincerest of Flattery: The Mimetic Power of Spirit Possession in Rajasthan, India
Jeffrey Snodgrass

Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2002, Vol 17, No. 1: 32-64

Of Ships and Saints: History, Memory, and Place in the Making of Moreno Mexican Identity
Laura Lewis
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2001, Vol 16, No. 1: 62-82

The Maoist Shaman and the Madman: Ritual Bricolage, Failed Ritual, and Failed Ritual Theory
Emily Chao
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1999, Vol. 14, No. 4: 505-534

Landlords and the Devil: Class, Ethnic, and Gender Dimensions of Central American Peasant Narratives
Marc Edelman
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1994, Vol. 9, No. 1: 58–93

Anthropology and Colonial Discourse: Aspects of the Demonological Construction of Sinhala Cultural Practice
David Scott
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1992, Vol. 7, No. 3: 301–326

The Embodiment of Paradox: Yoruba Kingship and Female Power
Andrew Apter
Cultural Anthropology May 1991 Vol. 6, No. 2: 212–229

RITUAL AND EMBODIMENT

Remains: to be Seen. Third Encounter between State and "Customary" in Northern Mozambique

Juan M. Obarrio
Cultural Anthropology May 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2: 263–300

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Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu Nationalist Movement
Arafaat A. Valiani

Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1: 73-99
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Gifts Intercepted: Biopolitics and Spirit Debt
Jean M. Langford
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 681-711
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The Funeral and Modernity in Manjaco
Eric Gable
Cultural Anthropology Aug 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3: 385–415

Burying the Past: Locality, Lived History, and Death in an Aymara Ritual of Remembrance
Andrew Orta
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2002, Vol 17, No. 4: 471-511

Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival
Saba Mahmood

Cultural Anthropology May 2001, Vol 16, No. 2: 202-236

Supplemental Material

The Maoist Shaman and the Madman: Ritual Bricolage, Failed Ritual, and Failed Ritual Theory
Emily Chao

Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1999, Vol. 14, No. 4: 505-534

Disobsessing Disobsession: Religion, Ritual, and the Social Sciences in Brazil
David J. Hess
Cultural Anthropology May 1989, Vol. 4, No. 2: 182–193

Genre, Motive, and Metaphor: Conditions for Creativity in Ritual Language
Thomas J. Csordas
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1987 Vol. 2, No. 4: 445–469

HINDUISM

Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu Nationalist Movement
Arafaat A. Valiani

Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1: 73-99
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The “Already Surmounted” yet “Secretly Familiar”: Malaysian Identity as Symptom
Andrew Willford
Cultural Anthropology Feb 2006, Vol. 21, No. 1: 31–59


The Impulse of Philanthropy

Erica Bornstein
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 622-651
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Good Gifts for the Common Good: Blood and Bioethics in the Market of Genetic Research
Deepa S. Reddy
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 3: 429-472

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Refractions of the Field at Home: American Representations of Hindu Holy Men in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Kirin Narayan
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1993 Vol. 8, No. 4: 476–509

JUDAISM

The Songs of the Siren: Engineering National Time on Israeli Radio

Danny Kaplan

Cultural Anthropology May 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2: 313-345
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Of Holograms and Storage Areas: Modernity and Postmodernity at Vienna's Jewish Museum

Matti Bunzl

Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2003, Vol. 18, No. 4: 435-468

Notes on Jewish-Muslim Relationships: Revisiting the Vanishing Moroccan Jewish Community
Andre Levy
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2003, Vol 18, No. 3: 365-397

Tourism, Charity, and Profit: The Movement of Money in Moroccan Jewish Pilgrimage
Oren Kosansky
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2002, Vol 17, No. 3: 359-400

Death and the Minyan
Jonathan Boyarin
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1994 Vol. 9, No. 1: 3–22

Changing Israeli Landscapes: Buildings and the Uses of the Past
Alex Weingrod
Cultural Anthropology Aug 1993, Vol 8, No. 3: 370–387

BUDDHISM

Contingent Selves: Love and Death in a Buddhist Society in Nepal
Ernestine McHugh

Cultural Anthropology May 2002,Vol 17, No. 2: 210-245


Echoes of a Yolmo Buddhist’s Life, in Death

Robert Desjarlais
Cultural Anthropology May 2000, Vol 15, No. 2: 260-293


RELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

Notes on Jewish-Muslim Relationships: Revisiting the Vanishing Moroccan Jewish Community
Andre Levy
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2003, Vol 18, No. 3: 365-397

Violence and the Rhetoric of Images
Gregory Starrett
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2003 Vol. 18, No. 3: 398–428


Ambiguity in the Oral Exegesis of a Sacred Text: Tirukkōvaiyār (or, the Guru in the Garden, Being an Account of a Tamil Informant's Responses to Homesteading in Central New York State)

Margaret Trawick
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1998 Vol. 3, No. 3: 316–351

The Credible and the Credulous: The Question of “Villagers' Beliefs” in Nepal
Stacy Leigh Pigg
Cultural Anthropology May 1996 Vol. 11, No. 2: 160–201, May 1996

Rachel, Mary, and Fatima
Susan Sered
Cultural Anthropology May 1991 Vol. 6, No. 2: 131–146

Religio and the Definition of Religion
Benson Saler
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1987 Vol. 2, No. 3: 395–399