Subversive Spiritualities - How Rituals Enact the World

Zusatztext Subversive Spiritualities is a tour de force of the kind that can only be produced by a mature scholar with tremendous interdisciplinary range and rich, real-world experience. Unceasingly provocative and wonderfully written, it deserves a wide reading by anyone interested how we might rekindle intimacy and reciprocity with nature. Informationen zum Autor Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Smith College Klappentext In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are ''eco-metaphysically true.'' Zusammenfassung In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are ''eco-metaphysically true.''

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• Authors: Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Apffel-Marglin Frederique
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2011
• EAN: 9780199793853
• ISBN: 978-0-19-979385-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series; Oxford Ritual Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Peru, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Devotional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General