1st Edition
Food, Sex and Strangers Understanding Religion as Everyday Life
By Graham Harvey
Copyright 2013
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Religion is more than a matter of worshipping a deity or spirit. For many people, religion pervades every part of their lives and is not separated off into some purely private and personal realm. Religion is integral to many people's relationship with the wider world, an aspect of their dwelling among other beings - both human and other-than-human - and something manifested in the everyday world... Read more
Preface 1. Of God and Goats 2. Religioning Elsewhere 3. Christianity is Not a Religion 4. Talking like a Pirate 5. Real World 6. Doing Violence with Impunity 7. Respecting Relations 8. Things Full of Meaning 9. Purity and Pilgrimages 10. Enchantment and Emplacement 11. Christians do Religion like Other People 12. Religion is Etiquette in the Real World Bibliography Index
Biography
Graham Harvey is Reader in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. He is author of Animism: Respecting the Living World and editor of Religions in Focus.
