ISBN10: 3825811107, ISBN13: 9783825811105, [publisher: LIT Verlag 2008-08-15, Berlin :|[London] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 3825811107, ISBN13: 9783825811105, [publisher: Lit Verlag, Hamburg] Softcover Paperback. This is a wide-ranging yet incisive text on 'religion from below' by an anthropologist, based on many years of field-work in Borneo and Australia and current teaching in practical theology and religious studies. It argues that rural Lutherans in Australia, and rural Anglicans, Muslims and local religionists in Malaysia, whose views form the core of the book, discern their religious identity primarily in terms of their food, friends and partners and funeral practices, and only secondarily - if at all - in terms of belief and doctrine. It also critiques ego-centred and ethnocentred approaches to religion too often apparent in religious studies and missiology. This is a wide-ranging yet incisive text on religion from below by an anthropologist, based on many years of field-work in Borneo and Australia and current teaching in practical theology and religious studies. It argues that rural Lutherans in Australia, and rural Anglicans, Muslims and local religionists in Malaysia, whose views form the core of the book, discern their religious identity primarily in terms of their food, friends and partners, and funeral practices, and only secondarily if at all in terms of belief and doctrine. Eliabeth Koepping teaches World Christianity and Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, ...

ISBN10: 3825811107, ISBN13: 9783825811105, [publisher: Lit Verlag] Softcover pp. 201
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]