Learning Religion

Learning ReligionAs we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture

the recent—and belated—Hong Kong statutory changes in relation to privity of contract have been dealt with

Victorians were obsessed with time in this century of incessant change

Davis examines a wide range of evidence—letters

Grzegorz Majcherek

detailing how corporations influenced government to affect changes in response to economic transitions

Whereas male scientists often used phrenology to support racist and colonialist agendas

their opponents-all of which are covered in this lucid work

a fierce rebuttal of conventional romantic literature and an indictment of the sexual mores and unquestioned attitudes to marriage and relationships in contemporary Egypt

This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to the formation of the social – whether in Africa

rather than design

Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs in this tumultuous decade

Each section investigates a separate category of initiates