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Religion, Agency, Restitution

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ISBN-10: 0199246750

ISBN-13: 9780199246755

Edition: 2001

Authors: Roland Littlewood

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Littlewood marshals arguments that help us understand more clearly how we interactively use religion and science/healing to come to terms with the world around us.
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Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Roland Littlewood is professor of anthropology and psychiatry and director of the Medical Anthropology Centre at University College London. He has conducted fieldwork in Trinidad, Haiti, Lebanon, Albania, and Italy.

Introduction
Extreme Experiences and Religious Cognitions
Moments of Creation: Pregnancy and Parturition as Cosmological Idiom
Moments of Creation: The Religious Embodiment of Women Prophets and Divine Innovators
In Defence of Euhemerus
Therapeutics of the Divine: Healing as a Hasidic Religious Idiom
Therapeutics of the Divine: Healing and Redemption as Mutual Transformation in Hasidism
Satan and the Computer: The Euro-American Revival of Spirit Possession
Naturalistic and Personalistic Modes of Thought
References
Index