Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-228) and index.
Contents
On learning religion : an introduction / David Berliner and Ramon Sarro -- Learning to believe : a preliminary approach / Carlo Severi -- Menstrual slaps and first blood celebrations : inference, simulation and the learning of ritual / Michael Houseman -- The accidental in religious instruction : ideas and convictions / David Parkin -- On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does / Michael Lambek -- How do you learn to know that it is God who speaks? / T.M. Luhrmann -- How to learn in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion : ontology and multiplicity in Candomble / Marcio Goldman -- Learning to be a proper medium : middle-class womanhood and spirit mediumship at Christian rationalist seances in Cape Verde / Joao Vasconcelos -- Copyright and authorship : ritual speech and the new market of words in Toraja / Aurora Donzelli -- Learning faith : young Christians and catechism / Laurence Herault -- What is interesting about Chinese religion / Charles Stafford -- The sound of witchcraft : noise as mediation in religious transmission / Michael Rowlands.
