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.
| ISBN: | 9781845454821 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2011 |
| Author: | Thomas Hauschild |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | EASA Series |
| Genres: |
Anthropology Religion: general |
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.
Power and Magic in Italy features in the following genres: Anthropology, Religion: general
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Power and Magic in Italy was written by Thomas Hauschild and published by Berghahn Books
Power and Magic in Italy has 256 pages
Yes it is part of EASA Series series
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