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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: Variations on Replication -- Chapter 1: 1:1 -- Chapter 2: Miniaturizing -- Chapter 3: Reenacting -- Chapter 4: Imagineering -- Chapter 5: Plastic Jesus -- Chapter 6: Ways of Remaining -- Section II: The Power of Nature -- Chapter 7: Flora -- Chapter 8: Fauna -- Chapter 9: Ingesting the Word -- Chapter 10: How Stones Do Things -- Section III: Choreographing Experience -- Circulation -- Chapter 11: Miracles and Lavatories -- Chapter 12: Greetings From . . . -- Chapter 13: Like-able Me, Like-able There -- Design -- Chapter 14: In Place, In Motion -- Chapter 15: Interactivity -- Chapter 16: Engulfed I -- Chapter 17: Engulfed II -- Classification -- Chapter 18: In the Garden -- Chapter 19: Rev. Ruth's Yard Poetics -- Chapter 20: Four Crosses Over Waterbury -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Anthropology of Religion: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues that all anthropologists of religion face. This book uses a wide range of historical and ethnographic examples to address not only what is studied by anthropologists of religion, but how such studies are approached. It addresses questions such as:How do human agents interact with gods and spirits?What is the nature of doing religious ethnography? Can the immaterial be embodied in the body, language and material objects?What is the role of ritual, time, and place in religion?Why is c

In this essay I review three important volumes for the field of secular studies: Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, Rethinking Secularism, and The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. All three volumes explore the nature of the secular and the status, role, and possible futures of religion in our late modern, globalized world. The volumes present 34 essays by 30 authors representing seven disciplines, and at least six end games. For some, questions of religion-secular entanglement are a historical matter and the task is to map intellectual and ideological trajectories. A second purpose is to empirically document the complexities of particular religion-secular entanglements in particular socio-cultural locations. For others, the remit is theoretical, to discern a conceptual agenda for the ongoing study of religion-secular entanglements. Others are more philosophical, chasing the existential consequences of secularity. A fifth end game is applied in nature: reflections on how political actors might best engage the religious and the secular in acts of governance and international relations. Finally, there are normative voices, those seeking to name what a good, productive religion-secular entanglement ought to look like. Taken together, the volumes mark a thriving, mature field of scholarly inquiry: secular studies has come of age.

In this article I examine how language ideology intersects with textual ideology, listening, and group identity in an American Evangelical context. The ethnographic focus is a men's Bible study group, their extended reading of the Old Testament book of Proverbs, a schism within the group involving a Pentecostal participant, and the tensions that surface when they read biblical texts as promises from God. I argue that the model of the sincere speaker can be extended to scriptural authors, forming religious subjects as listeners. The religious listening that is created, when viewed against the backdrop of Evangelical textual assumptions and Western assumptions about the nature of promises, explains the struggles these men encounter through their collective reading of scripture.

Introduction / Lieke Wijnia and James S. Bielo -- Nazareth in pewter : pilgrims' badges of Loreto, Walsingham and Wavre / Hanneke van Asperen -- "Blinded by their zeal" : guide books to the Holy Land / Jack Kugelmass -- Back to the garden : bringing visitors to American edens, 1885-1956 / Brook Wilensky-Lanford -- The Latter-day Saints, the Bible, and tourism / Daniel H. Olsen and George A. Pierce -- Looking for a miracle : tourism, Tanya and Theurgy at the grave of the 'late' Lubavitcher rebbe / Simon Dein -- Media pilgrimage : the stories that shape the modern Camino de Santiago / Suzanne van der Beek -- Cultural-religious routes and their tourism valorization : in the "footsteps of the Apostle Paul in Greece" / Polyxeni Moira -- Bible museums / Crispin Paine -- Rewriting the Bible : the visual culture of creation science / Larissa Carneiro -- Music, scripture and the sacred : negotiating the postsecular at a Dutch arts festival / Lieke Wijnia -- Building on the gospel : the Moravian settlement at Christiansfeld / Marie Vejrup Nielsen -- Afterword / James S. Bielo.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Introduction: Landscape Processes in the Making of Christianities -- Part I: Destinations -- Chapter 1: Galactic shrines and the Catholic Cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina -- Chapter 2: Sacralizing the Landscape: Water and the Development of a Pilgrimage Shrine -- Chapter 3: Crucifix and Dirt: Catholic and Indigenous Origins of the Holy Earth of the Santuario de Chimayó -- Chapter 4: Captivating Landscapes: Gender and Religion in Mormon Captivity Narratives -- Part II: Part Two Temporalities -- Chapter 5: From the Messiah's Glade to the Gods' Mountains: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia -- Chapter 6: Geography as Eschatology: Moral Freedom and Prophecy Fulfillment on Land and at Sea -- Chapter 7: Imagining an Ethnic Ecumene: Evangelical Landscapes as Gentile, Jewish, and Native in the American South -- Part III: Transformations -- Chapter 8: Landscape as Expressive Resource in Materializing the Bible -- Chapter 9: When Mountains Move: Athonite Processions, Sacred Performance, and Overlapping Topographies -- Chapter 10: The Garden of Eden in an Era of Over-Tourism: (Managing) New Testament Sacred Groves in the Holy Land -- Afterword: On Placing and Displacing in Christianity -- The Work That Landscape Does: On Placing and Displacing in Christianity -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.