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Religion in English everyday life : an ethnographic approach
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Religion in English everyday life : an ethnographic approach

Author: Timothy Jenkins
Publisher: New York: Berghahn Books, 1999.
Series: Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 5.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Timothy Jenkins
ISBN: 1571817263 9781571817266 1571817697 9781571817693
OCLC Number: 41503554
Description: xv, 256 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Foreword / David Parkin --
Introduction: Religious Elements in an Ethnography of Everyday Life --
Two Sociological Approaches to Religion in Modern Britain --
The Country Church --
The Case of St. Mary's, Comberton --
The Kingswood Whit Walk --
The Whit Walk --
Family and Locality --
'Fiends Transformed': A Discussion of Local History --
Respectability, Reputation and Restraint --
Anxiety, Conflict and Gossip --
Secrets of the Spirit World.
Series Title: Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 5.
Responsibility: by Timothy Jenkins.

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"Much of the interest and originality of the book inheres in the illuminating and sensitive analysis ... an important methodological contribution." * Journal of Contemporary Religion "Jenkins is a Read more...

 
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