Russian-born Swedish-trained medical and religious anthropologist Lindquist investigates the practice of magic healing in Russia during the 1990s. Her emphasis is on the power of consciousness to shap
Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study
Anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of religion and philosophy ponder whether ritual forms have constituting and self-constituting structural, processual, and transformational features that ma
While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The book as a whole explores th
"This volume is an important contribution to current rethinking of the sociological categories of religion and the secular. As a whole the collection demonstrates the development of new perspectives a
