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  • Powers of Pilgrimage

    Religion in a World of Movement

    by Simon Coleman ...
    **Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of ReligionA groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage**Pious processions. Sites of miraculous healing. Journeys to far-away sacred places. These are what are usually called to mind when we think of religious pilgrimage. Yet while pilgrimage can include journeying to the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Reframing Pilgrimage

    Cultures in Motion

    Edited by Simon Coleman, John Eade ...
    Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions, as well as in secular contexts, and they create a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement. This voluntary displacement helps to constitute ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion

    Edited by Joel Robbins, Simon Coleman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual background to how anthropologists approach religion, and to show why its study remains a dynamic means of reflecting on ... Read more

    $175.99 USD

  • Religion in Cathedrals

    Pilgrimage, Place, Heritage, and the Politics of Replication

    Edited by Simon Coleman, Marion Bowman ...
    This book explores cathedrals, past and present, as spaces for religious but also wider cultural practices. Contributors from history, anthropology, sociology, and religious studies trace major continuities and shifts in the location of cathedrals within religious, civic, urban, and economic landscapes of pre- and post-Reformation Christianity.While much of the focus is on England, other European ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa

    Remaking the City

    Edited by Dr David Garbin, Simon Coleman, Gareth Millington ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Christian Temporalities

    Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed

    Edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens, Simon Coleman, Matt Tomlinson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks with the past in Christian conversion and future ruptures announced in prophecy, the volume reveals previously unexplored ways in which Christians work with concepts of time and its articulation with ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Pilgrimage and Political Economy

    Translating the Sacred

    Edited by Simon Coleman, John Eade ...
    Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow—and sometimes create—trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states. Furthermore, it brings together case studies that ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Different Repetitions

    Anthropological Engagements with Figures of Return, Recurrence and Redundancy

    Edited by Andreas Bandak, Simon Coleman ...
    This book takes the concept of repetition beyond older anthropological debates over habit, structure, or cultural continuity and demonstrates its value in attempts to comprehend the temporal, spatial and ideological fields in which contemporary social scientists must operate.Repetition has an ambiguous value in human societies. It may contribute to desired social and cultural reproduction or, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Tourism

    Between Place and Performance

    Edited by Simon Coleman, Mike Crang ...
    Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Religious Conversion

    by Robert T. Anderson, Diane Austin-Broos, Thomas K. Brown, Simon Coleman, Maria Pia Di Bella, Charles Farhadian, Roger Ivar Lohmann, Marcela Mendoza, Kalyani Devaki Menon, Rebecca Sachs Norris, Robert J. Priest, Lewis R.Rambo, Mary Ann Reidhead, Van A Reidhead, Don Seeman ...
    The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both on its cultural ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Friendship

    Edited by Sandra Bell, Simon Coleman ...
    Friendship is usually seen as a vital part of most people's lives in the West. From our friends, we hope to derive emotional support, advice and material help in times of need. In this pioneering book, basic assumptions about friendship are examined from a cross-cultural point of view. Is friendship only a western conception or is it possible to identify friends in such places as Papua New Guinea, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Pearls of Glaucoma Management

    Edited by JoAnn A. Giaconi, Simon K. Law, Anne L. Coleman, Joseph Caprioli ...
    If you have ever uttered the commonly expressed lament, “Glaucoma is so confusing!” then this text is for you. You will no longer be bewildered. Why practitioners may be confused about how to be of help to patients with glaucoma – in its many incarnations and reincarnations – is easily understood. The issue seems to be overwhelming when one considers that the already massive popu- tion of those ... Read more

    $134.99 USD