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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Anthropology of religion"”.
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Navigating Pain: Women's Healing Practices in a Hindu Temple
<p>This dissertation is an ethnographic study of a Hindu healing temple in North India, popular for treating psychological ailments that manifest as spirit afflictions. Religious healing centers constitute the single most popular pathway of mental health care for Indian women. These folk sites, …
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The Yao Muslims : religion and social change in southern Malawi
… Yao. The dissertation begins with the problem of their conversion and adherence to Islam in the face of seemingly adverse circumstances. In exploring-solutions to this problem the emergence of a Yao identity is outlined and the politics of conversion are described. The narrative then moves on …
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INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY: EARLY MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN NIAS, INDONESIA (1865-1908)
Through a critical analysis of missionary and colonial archives, this thesis explores the complex interplay between traditional ‘immanentist’ Nias culture and ‘transcendentalist’ Christianity brought by German missionaries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The early encounter between …
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Cultivation and Conflict: Buddhist-Derived Meditation and Ethical Complexity among Israeli Jews
… currently being employed by a striking variety of Israelis. This dissertation relies on over 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Israel and the occupied West Bank. It examines the ways in which orthodox Jews on the one hand, and non-observant Jewish activists for solidarity with Palestinians …
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Printing as Practice: Innovation and Imagination in the Making of Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Texts in California
This thesis offers an exploration of how one brings a Tibetan sacred text to being — and to voice — in the unfamiliar, and perhaps unlikely, landscape of Northern California. Through 16 months’ fieldwork with a Nyingma Buddhist community based in Berkeley, California I ask how the production of the …
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Between belief and science: Paranormal investigators and the production of ghostly knowledge in contemporary England
… 09:46:24 UTC Reason: Author requested extension of restriction. Changed from closed to UofI only. Approved by Graduate College on 01/08/2014. sls
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Epistemology and Authority in Two Latter-day Saint QAnon Conspiracy Theorists
… contemporary American culture. Through a series of interviews with two highly engaged QAnon conspiracy theorists who are also members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I analyzed QAnon as an epistemic formation characterized by critique of social conditions, modern standards of …
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Until I overflow: queer Pentecostal intimacies in & beyond Brazil
… published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Go Into All the World: Moral-Subject Formation through Evangelical Short-Term Missions from the United States to the Dominican Republic
… short-term missions (STMs), the religious branch of the billion-dollar volunteer-tourism industry. Rooted in 13 months of multi-sited ethnographic research, this dissertation examines evangelical STMs in the Dominican Republic as vehicles for evangelization and voluntarism in the contexts of …
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Inviting the Other: An ethnographically-informed social history of Sat Tal Christian Ashram
… Sat Tal Christian Ashram (STA) in the foothills of northern India. Using motifs of what was later to be termed ‘inculturation’, Jones envisioned STA as a place that was both “truly Christian and truly Indian” and actively sought to model and impart a Christ-centered spirituality that was not …
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Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat
… takes the routine marginalization and erasure of Muslim presence in the contemporary social and political life of the western Indian state of Gujarat as an entry point into a genealogy of Gujarati regionalism. Through a historical anthropology of the reconfiguration of the modern idea of …
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De villkorligt frigivna : relationen mellan munkar och lekfolk i ett nutida Thailand
This dissertation, based on 14 months of fieldwork carried out in central, northern and north-eastern Thailand, focuses on laypeople's demands on contemporary Thai Theravada sangha. In the aftermath of the economic breakdown in 1997, an intense discussion concerning the moral status of the sangha …