Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

The international conference from which these 11 papers are taken, on modes of religiosity, was held in December 2001 at Cambridge University; it was the first of three, and the proceedings of the others are presented in other volumes in the series. Mostly anthropologists explore such topics as divergent modes of religiosity in West Africa, the doctrinal mode and evangelical Christianity in the US, Indic renouncer religions, and Asian modernist perspectives. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR