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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 perspicacious and insightful researcher ... An original and fascinating read." * World Faith Encounter Read more...
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