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What Matters? : Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age / ed. by Courtney Bender, Ann Taves.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Columbia / SSRC BookPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231156851
  • 9780231504683
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 204.4 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1531 .W44 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Things of Value -- From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory -- Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds -- Religious and Secular, "Spiritual" and "Physical" in Ghana -- Volunteer Experience -- Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life -- Homeschooling the Enchanted Child -- Mind Matters -- Tribalism, Experience, and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Over the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholars to rethink secularity and its relationship to society. Since classifying a person, activity, or experience as religious or otherwise is an important act of valuation, one that defines the characteristics of a group and its relation to others, scholars are struggling to recast these concepts in our increasingly ambiguous, pluralistic world.This collection considers religious and secular categories and what they mean to those who seek valuable, ethical lives. As they investigate how individuals and groups determine significance, set goals, and attribute meaning, contributors illustrate the ways in which religious, secular, and spiritual designations serve as markers of value. Reflecting on recent ethnographic and historical research, chapters explore contemporary psychical research and liberal American homeschooling; the work of nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American psychologists and French archaeologists; the role of contemporary humanitarian and volunteer organizations based in Europe and India; and the prevalence of highly mediated and spiritualized publics, from international psy-trance festivals to Ghanaian national political contexts. Contributors particularly focus on the role of ambivalence, attachment, and disaffection in the formation of religious, secular, and spiritual identities, resetting research on secular society and contemporary religious life while illuminating what matters in the lives of ordinary individuals.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Things of Value -- From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory -- Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds -- Religious and Secular, "Spiritual" and "Physical" in Ghana -- Volunteer Experience -- Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life -- Homeschooling the Enchanted Child -- Mind Matters -- Tribalism, Experience, and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

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Over the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholars to rethink secularity and its relationship to society. Since classifying a person, activity, or experience as religious or otherwise is an important act of valuation, one that defines the characteristics of a group and its relation to others, scholars are struggling to recast these concepts in our increasingly ambiguous, pluralistic world.This collection considers religious and secular categories and what they mean to those who seek valuable, ethical lives. As they investigate how individuals and groups determine significance, set goals, and attribute meaning, contributors illustrate the ways in which religious, secular, and spiritual designations serve as markers of value. Reflecting on recent ethnographic and historical research, chapters explore contemporary psychical research and liberal American homeschooling; the work of nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American psychologists and French archaeologists; the role of contemporary humanitarian and volunteer organizations based in Europe and India; and the prevalence of highly mediated and spiritualized publics, from international psy-trance festivals to Ghanaian national political contexts. Contributors particularly focus on the role of ambivalence, attachment, and disaffection in the formation of religious, secular, and spiritual identities, resetting research on secular society and contemporary religious life while illuminating what matters in the lives of ordinary individuals.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)