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Ethnographies of Doubt: Faith and Uncertainty in Contemporary Societies
M. E. Pelkmans
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Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 506.
Religious and secular convictions have powerful effects, but their fundaments are often surprisingly fragile. Because of the conspicuous role that nationalisms, populisms, and fundamentalisms have in our globalizing world it is essential not to take their strength for granted, but to acknowledge that conviction and doubt are part of the same dynamic. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that doubt and hesitation are daily concerns even among the Maoist movement in India, right-wing populists in Europe and newly pious Somali Muslims in London. In fact, new converts are often such stringent believers precisely because they need to dispel their own ... Read more
Religious and secular convictions have powerful effects, but their fundaments are often surprisingly fragile. Because of the conspicuous role that nationalisms, populisms, and fundamentalisms have in our globalizing world it is essential not to take their strength for granted, but to acknowledge that conviction and doubt are part of the same dynamic. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that doubt and hesitation are daily concerns even among the Maoist movement in India, right-wing populists in Europe and newly pious Somali Muslims in London. In fact, new converts are often such stringent believers precisely because they need to dispel their own ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848858107
SKU
V9781848858107
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About M. E. Pelkmans
Mathijs Pelkmans is Lecturer in Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK. He is the author of Defending the Border: Identity, Religion and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia (2006, Cornell University Press) and Conversion after Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union (2009, Berghahn Books). ... Read more
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