Talk About Prayer - An Ethnographic Commentary

Informationen zum Autor Johannes Fabian is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Klappentext Talk about Prayer is an experiment in writing ethnography, a commentary on a conversation with Mama Régine Tshitanda, the leader of a Charismatic prayer group (groupe de prière) in Lubumbashi (Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and members of her family in 1986. Zusammenfassung Talk about Prayer is an experiment in writing ethnography, a commentary on a conversation with Mama Régine Tshitanda, the leader of a Charismatic prayer group (groupe de prière) in Lubumbashi (Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and members of her family in 1986.    Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Into the Past: Global Charismatic Renewal and Local Survival2. Back to the Present: A Text3. Lives, Visions, and Voices4. Praying5. Local Survival6. Questions

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Fabian
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781137570154
• ISBN: 978-1-137-57015-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion; Contemporary Anthropology of R; Contemporary Anthropology of Religion; Contemporary Anthropology of R
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); C, Sociology of Religion, Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Social Sciences, Religion & beliefs, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Religious issues & debates, Sociology & anthropology, Social Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Religion and sociology, Social Aspects of Religion, ethnography;experiment;family;writing