| Descript |
xii, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Outline for an ethnography of doubt -- Types of shared doubt in the flow of a discussion -- Believing in spirits, doubting the cosmos: religious reflexivity in the Mongolian gold mines -- Ole believers' passion play: the meaning of doubt in an Orthodox ritualist movement -- Belive but don't be superstitious! discourses of authority and authenticity in a Taiwanese spirit-medium shrine -- Suspense in retrospective ethnography -- In search of certainty in revolutionary India -- 'Something went wrong with this capitalism': illusion and doubt in a Hungarian (post-) industrial community -- Doubt as a double-edged sword: unanswerble questions and practical solutions among newly practising Somali muslims in London -- Afterword: in the aftermath of doubt |
| Subject |
Belief and doubt
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Ethnology
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| Alt Author |
Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973-
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| ISBN |
9781848858107 |
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