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Religion in society has been a complex study for both academic and non-academic disciplines. Definingreligion had become an issue since the beginning of world religions. This issue will continue to remain insociety, unless world religions avoid imposed definition of religion from the world religions' perspective.This research aims to study about how religion had been defined by many scholars theologically, politically,culturally, contextually, and how such different approaches never reach the consensus of understandingtoward defining religion. In many cases, the definition of religion was imposed by scholars who havepower of knowledge and intellectual in the discipline of world religions. The power of defining religionfrom the world religions' perspective becomes challenging for people, such as indigenous people whocontinue to practice their religion from the origin of their fore-parents until today. Religion defined byworld religions from the transcendental perspective had led to discrimination against other indigenousreligions in various parts of the world, such as the Naga people in India.

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Introduction / Ezra Chitando -- African traditional religion and climate change : perspectives from Zimbabwe / Tabona Shoko -- The climate crisis : mitigation and control through Emaswati indigenous knowledge / Sonene Nyawo -- The nexus between indigenous beliefs on environment and climate change adaptation amongst the Sengwer in Embobut Forest, Kenya / Loreen Maseno & King'asia Mamati -- An African ecofeminist appraisal of the value of indigenous knowledge systems in responding to environmental degradation and climate change / Lilian C. Siwila -- Women, indigenous knowledge systems and climate change in Kenya / Susan Mbula Kilonzo -- Putting words into action : the role of the church in addressing climate change in Ghana / Beatrice Okyere-Manu and Stephen Nkansah Morgan -- The mainline churches and climate change in Uganda / David Andrew Omona -- An overview of the response of Catholics in Africa to the Laudato Si's call for creation care / George C. Nche -- Youth and climate change in the United Church of Zambia / Damon Mkandawire -- Hinduism and climate change in Africa / Elizabeth Pulane Motswapong -- Risk reduction interventions, building resilience and adaptation to climate change in northeastern Kenya : a review of the response by the Islamic Relief Worldwide / Hassan Juma Ndzovu -- The religio-spiritual and sacred dimensions of climate-induced conflicts : a research agenda / Joram Tarusarira and Damaris S. Parsitau -- African religious leaders and climate change financing / Veronica Nonhlanhla Gundu-Jakarasi -- Climate change as a multi-layered crisis for humanity / Ernst M. Conradie.

The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in the past, or how they understand themselves now? When and under what conditions did this assumption take shape, and what truths does it conceal? In this book, Joel Lee challenges presuppositions at the foundation of the study of caste and religion in South Asia. Drawing on detailed archival and ethnographic research, Lee tracks the career of a Dalit religion and the effort by twentieth-century nationalists to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic. A chronicle of religious life in north India and an examination of the ethics and semiotics of secrecy, Deceptive Majority throws light on the manoeuvres by which majoritarian projects are both advanced and undermined.

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Social Science Theories of Religion -- chapter 3 Religion as Poetry -- chapter 4 The Faith We Have Lost -- chapter 5 The Persistence of Religion -- chapter 6 Testing the Links -- chapter 7 Different Poetry for Different People -- chapter 8 The Pragmatics of Prayer -- chapter 9 Religious Stories and Political Stories -- chapter 10 Religious Stories and the Environment -- chapter 11 Religious Stories and AIDS -- chapter 12 Religious Stories and Contact with the Dead -- chapter 13 A Story of Two Religious Imaginations -- chapter 14 The Development of a Religious Story -- chapter 15 Conclusion.

Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious experience; religion and the paranormal; magic and divination; religion and ecology; fundamentalism; and religion and violence. In addition, this book offers a unique and concise coverage of traditional topics of the anthropology of religion such as shamanism and witchcraft (past and present), ritual, myth, religious symbols, and revitalization movements. A vast range of findings from ethnography, ethnology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, prehistory, history, and cognitive science are brought to bear on the subject. Written in clear jargon-free prose, this book provides an accessible and comprehensive yet critical view of the anthropology of religion both for graduate and undergraduate students and general audiences. Its scope and critical scientific orientation sets Religion: An Anthropological Perspective apart from all other treatments of the subject