Provincializing God?: Provocations from an anthropology of religion

Religion: Beyond a Concept

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 120-138

  Lambek, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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References (31)

1. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
2. Michael Lambek, ed., A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001).
3. Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003).
4. Hent de Vries, Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (Baltimore:The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
5. David Parkin, "Inside and Outside the Mosque: A Master Trope," in Islamic Prayer Across the Indian Ocean, ed. David Parkin and Stephen Headley (Richmond: Curzon, 2000), 1-22.
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7. Jean Pouillon, "Remarks on the Verb 'To Believe,' " in Between Belief and Transgression, ed. Michel Izard and Pierre Smith (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).
8. Michael Lambek, Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).
9. Franz Rosenthal, Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970).
10. Michael Lambek, "Choking on the Qur'an and Other Consuming Parables from the Western Indian Ocean Front," in The Pursuit of Certainty, ed. Wendy James (London: Routledge, 1995), 252-75.
11. Michael Lambek and Andrew Walsh, "The Imagined Community of the Antankaraña: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar," in Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar, ed. Karen Middleton (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999), 145-74.
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28. Michael Lambek, "The Anthropology of Religion and the Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy," Current Anthropology 41 (2000): 309-20.
29. Malcolm Ruel, Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life: Reflexive Essays on a Bantu Religion (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997).
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31. Charles Hirschkind, The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).