"The study investigates how Muslim religious specialists (fuqarâ, sing. fakî) acquire Qur'anic knowledge in the context of the 'communities of practice'. It contextualises the Qur'anic schools of Jebel Marra in the Sudan arguing that the fuqarâ increase their access to knowledge of the Qur'an by socially interacting with each other. The book is grounded in a[n] ethnographic study of Qur'anic memorisation and activities that the fuqarâ perform after graduation from Qur'anic schools. It thus provides a fresh perspective to Islamic learning and epistemology. 'The great value of the study lies in the author's reconstruction of the practices and techniques, cognitive and corporeal, which are systematically employed to memorise the whole of the Qur'an.'"--Page 4 of cover.
Religion provides one major source of ideas and orientations for the actor , and Weber devoted much analysis to the comparative study of religions . His interest was not religious doctrine per se , but the spirit or ethos that was ...
Y el cielo no quería que se le tirara a la basura . Así que previno a los hombres : si no tenían más cuidado , él se iría muy lejos . Durante un tiempo los hombres fueron cautos , pero un buen día una mujer voraz cortó un trozo ...
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This is an essential guide for students encountering anthropology of religion for the first time.
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In Bolivia, pilgrims approach the Virgin of Urkupiña as a woman of flesh and blood, just like themselves, rather than as a static, lifeless statue or a mere representation. Sometimes devotees write letters to the Virgin Mary, ...
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Divided into 10 chapters, this book begins with a broad view of anthropological ways of looking at religion, and moves on to some of the core topics within the subject, such as myth, ritual, and the various types of religious specialists.
"The book deals with current issues of the study of religion as an academic discipline, especially cognitive, anthropological and sociological research of religious thought and behaviour."--