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Chapter 4. The Popular Use of Popular Religion: Power and Meaning in Three Brazilian Popular Religions

From the book Play and Power in Religion

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110259513.92
From the book
Play and Power in Religion
Play and Power in Religion

Chapters in this book (23)

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: From Contingency to Continuity
Part I. Marginality, Play and Power
Margin
Chapter 1. Symbols of Marginality in the Biographies of Religious and Secular Innovators: A comparative study of the lives of Jesus, Waldes, Booth, Kimbangu, Buddha, Mohammed and Marx
Chapter 2. The Playful Seriousness of Brazilian Religiosity: Mario Quintana on Religion
Inversion
Chapter 3. Paradise lost: The domestication of religious imagination
Chapter 4. The Popular Use of Popular Religion: Power and Meaning in Three Brazilian Popular Religions
Play and Ritual
Chapter 5. Enjoying an Emerging Alternative World: Ritual in Its Own Ludic Right
Chapter 6. Feasts: A View from Cultural Anthropology
Power and Meaning-making
Chapter 7. The Power Dimensions of the Christian Community: An Anthropological Model
Chapter 8. Identity, Religious Pluralism and Ritual in Brazil: Umbanda and Pentecostalism
Part II. Two Fields
Syncretism
Chapter 9. Syncretism: The Problem of Definition, the Definition of the Problem
Chapter 10. Syncretists, Fundamentalists and Scholars Compared
Chapter 11. Joana’s Story: Syncretism and Gender at the Actor’s Level
Pentecostalism
Chapter 12. Paradoxical Views on a Paradoxical Religion: Models for the Explanation of Pentecostal Expansion in Brazil and Chile
Chapter 13. Globalization and Pentecostal Success
Part III. Methodological Applications
Methodological Ludism
Chapter 14. Methodological Ludism: Beyond Religionism and Reductionism
Chapter 15. The Third Bank of the River: Play, Methodological Ludism and the Definition of Religion
Religion and Science
Chapter 16. Knowledge of Religion and Religious Knowledge: The Cultural Anthropology of Religion and a Religious Anthropology
Chapter 17. As Close as a Scholar Can Get: Exploring a One-Field Approach to the Study of Religion
Bibliography André Droogers
Original publication of chapters
Index
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