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Talk about prayer : an ethnographic commentary
- Title
- Talk about prayer : an ethnographic commentary / Johannes Fabian.
- Author
- Fabian, Johannes.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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- Description
- xi, 102 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Talk about Prayer is an experiment in writing ethnography, a commentary on a conversation with Mama Regine Tshitanda, the leader of a Charismatic prayer group (groupe de prire) in Lubumbashi (Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and members of her family in 1986. Fabian's research on expressions and practices of popular culture, including popular religion, was conducted during two visits to Katanga in 1985 and 1986. He discusses controversial issues in the study of the Global Charismatic Movement as seen at the time and gives a detailed account of the circumstances and events that led to the recorded meeting and how the ethnographic document on which this book is based was made. Central to the book is the authors understanding of anthropology of religion, in that research should be based on communicative ethnography, an approach that involves confrontation between researchers and interlocutors as well between their views of the world. Talk about Prayer is one such argument for keeping open the debate on a critical stance toward religion.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave pivot
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave pivot.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-100) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Into the Past: Global Charismatic Renewal and Local Survival -- 2. Back to the Present: A Text -- 3. Lives, Visions, and Voices -- 4. Praying -- 5. Local Survival -- 6. Questions.
- Call Number
- Sc D 15-1853
- ISBN
- 1137570156
- 9781137570154
- OCLC
- 913924505
- Author
- Fabian, Johannes.
- Title
- Talk about prayer : an ethnographic commentary / Johannes Fabian.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave pivotPalgrave pivot.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-100) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 15-1853