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  • Charisma and Institution in American Culture

    Ethnography of a Catholic Pentecostal Prayer Group

    by Keping Wu ...
    The book offers an ethnographic account of the composition, leadership, and ritual performance of a charismatic Catholic prayer group. Through analysis, it reveals how the charismatic priest maximizes his authority by integrating personal and institutional power within the context of global Pentecostalism and recent American cultural history.What happens when charisma and bureaucratic structure ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Religion and Charity

    The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

    by Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang, Keping Wu, Lizhu Fan ...
    Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • It Happens Among People

    Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

    Edited by Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller ...
    Series Book 8 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth’s pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential ... Read more

    $23.79 USD