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Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader

Kristin Norget, Valentina Napolitano, and Maya Mayblin

Abstract

A collection of classic and contemporary ethnographic explorations of Catholicism, by anthropologists and religious studies scholars. The book approaches Catholicism through a variety topics and across a wide range of geographical settings. Includes material whose theme is ‘religion’, as well as contributions that expand on Catholicism’s intersection with politics and economics, secularism and modernity, sex and gender, kinship and heritage, and technologies of mediation.

Keywords: Roman Catholicism, Anthropology of Catholicism, Catholic Church, Anthropology of Religion, Christianity, Conversion, Political theology, Marian Shrine, Pilgrimage, Religious Institution, Religion

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9780520288423
Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2017 DOI:10.1525/california/9780520288423.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Kristin Norget, editor
McGill University

Valentina Napolitano, editor
University of Toronto

Maya Mayblin, editor
University of Edinburgh

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Maya Mayblin, Kristin Norget, and Valentina Napolitano

Part One A Genealogy of the Anthropology of Catholicism

1 Excerpt from “St Besse: A Study of an Alpine Cult”

Robert Hertz

2 Excerpt from “Tarantism and Catholicism”

Ernesto de Martino

3 Excerpt from “The Place of Grace in Anthropology”

Julian A. Pitt-Rivers

4 Excerpt from “The Dinka and Catholicism”

Godfrey Lienhardt

5 Excerpt from “Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage”

Victor Turner and Edith Turner

6 Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish Valley

William A. Christian

7 Excerpt from “The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain”

Stanley H. Brandes

8 Excerpt from “Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century”

Caroline Walker Bynum1

Part Two Contemporary Works in the Anthropology of Catholicism

9 “Complexio Oppositorum”?

David Mosse

10 Marking Memory

Hillary Kaell

11 Containment and Contagion

Maya Mayblin

12 Opulence and Simplicity

Andreas Bandak

13 The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism

Eric Hoenes del Pinal

14 The Virgin of Guadalupe and Spectacles of Catholic Evangelism in Mexico

Kristin Norget

15 The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine

Ellen Badone

16 A Catholic Body?

Jon P. Mitchell

17 Experiments of Inculturation in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon

Ludovic Lado

18 On a Political Economy of Political Theology

Valentina Napolitano

19 Making a Home in an Unfortunate Place

J. Michelle Molina

Part Three Interventions in the Anthropology of Catholicism

20 “We’re All Catholics Now”

Simon Coleman

21 What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis?

Robert A. Orsi

22 Possession and Psychopathology, Faith and Reason

Thomas J. Csordas

23 Catholicism and the Study of Religion

Birgit Meyer

24 The Media of Sensation

Niklaus Largier

End Matter

Bibliography

Contributors

Index