Zusatztext "Hauschild has produced a visceral ethnographic account from the perspective of healers that also subtly addresses questions about the production of ethnographic data." ? Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Informationen zum Autor Thomas Hauschild is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) and a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. He teaches social and cultural anthropology at Halle University, Germany. He has published numerous books and articles on religion and politics, the history and theory of anthropology, and the anthropology of the Mediterranean. Klappentext Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi! priests! mothers! and migrants! the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape! the body! human practice! and material experience. The focus on women as religious practitioners is linked to the idea of religion as a primary mode of production that creates and helps to maintain human reserves in a fast changing! male-dominated world. It is through this mechanism that the Catholic Church! the oldest existing bureaucratic agency of globalization! has maintained its power. Exploring aspects of spirit experiences! trance! the cult of saints! official ecclesiastical cults! and especially witchcraft! this book reveals the explosive! sometimes violent creativity of religion! its relation to magic! and its multi-facetted social value for humans as reflected in the religiously based! pragmatic realism of everyday life in the Mediterranean. Zusammenfassung Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Linda, the Woman Who Helps Chapter 2. Women, Men, Books Chapter 3. Vito and the Spirits Chapter 4. The Cursed Chapter 5. Bitter Truths Chapter 6. The Ancestral Line of the Magi Chapter 7. Can Priests Fly? Chapter 8. The Good Shepherd Chapter 9. Carnival Chapter 10. The Cement of Power Chapter 11. The Nightmare Bibliography Index ...

Autorentext

Thomas Hauschild is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) and a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. He teaches social and cultural anthropology at Halle University, Germany. He has published numerous books and articles on religion and politics, the history and theory of anthropology, and the anthropology of the Mediterranean.

Klappentext

Based on vivid and colorful case studies about Mafiosi, priests, mothers, and migrants, the author offers new perspectives on the anthropology of religion and magic through categories of landscape, the body, human practice, and material experience. The focus on women as religious practitioners is linked to the idea of religion as a primary mode of production that creates and helps to maintain human reserves in a fast changing, male-dominated world. It is through this mechanism that the Catholic Church, the oldest existing bureaucratic agency of globalization, has maintained its power. Exploring aspects of spirit experiences, trance, the cult of saints, official ecclesiastical cults, and especially witchcraft, this book reveals the explosive, sometimes violent creativity of religion, its relation to magic, and its multi-facetted social value for humans as reflected in the religiously based, pragmatic realism of everyday life in the Mediterranean.

Inhalt

List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Linda, the Woman Who Helps
Chapter 2. Women, Men, Books
Chapter 3. Vito and the Spirits
Chapter 4. The Cursed
Chapter 5. Bitter Truths
Chapter 6. The Ancestral Line of the Magi
Chapter 7. Can Priests Fly?
Chapter 8. The Good Shepherd
Chapter 9. Carnival
Chapter 10. The Cement of Power
Chapter 11. The Nightmare

Bibliography
Index