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Death, life, and laughter : essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies / edited by Matthew Guest and Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon.
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English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Group, 2017.
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xi, 275 pages ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BL25 .D43 2017
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Religion
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Davies, Douglas J. (Douglas James)
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Honouree
Davies, Douglas J. (Douglas James)
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Guest, Mathew
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Middlemiss Lé Mon, Martha, 1978-
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: transgressing boundaries / Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon and Mathew Guest
Part I: Cultures of meaning and religious identity
The Book of Mormon: the American gospel? / Seth D. Kunin
'Death, sometimes, has its price': How Douglas Davies and Sergio Leone cope with capitalism and change / James G. Crossley
Mormonism and the fourth-century search for a Christian doctrine of God / Grant Underwood
Words and deeds against exclusion: deprivation, activism and religiosity in inner-city Birmingham / Christian Karner and David Parker
Part II: Ritual, symbolism and identity
Religion and ritual markers between the public and the private: funerary rites in Sweden / Anders Bäckström
Facing existential meaning challenges through a post-secular clinical model: Swedish case illustrations following abortion
Valerie DeMarinis
The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree / Charles Watkins
Part III: Disciplinary identity and the boundaries of understanding
Hope and creativity: the shifting nexus between religion and development / James A. Beckford
Theology, social science, and the 'power' of religion and of the spirit / David Martin
Called to speak: language, meaning and the status of research data / Matthew Wood
Where does Islamic studies fit? / Hugh Goddard
From Jevons to Collini (via Douglas Davies): reflections on higher education and religious identity / Mathew Guest
A break from prose: defying the boundaries of genre / Eleanor Nesbitt
An inquisitive presence: thinking with Douglas Davies on the study of religion / Michael J. Thate.
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ISBN
9781472427700 ((hbk.))
147242770X ((hbk.))
9781409457022 ((pbk.))
1409457028 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2016027277
OCLC
965469941
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