Ethnographies of doubt : faith and uncertainty in contemporary societies / edited by Mathijs Pelkmans.

Contributor Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973- editor.

ImprintLondon ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Descriptionxii, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:1 Outline for an Ethnography of Doubt / Mathijs Pelkmans -- 2 Types of Shared Doubt in the Flow of a Discussion / Maurice Block -- 3 Believing in Spirits, Doubting the Cosmos: Religious Reflexivity in the Mongolian Gold Mines / Metre M. High -- 4 Old Believers' Passion Play: The Meaning of Doubt in an Orthodox Ritualist Movement / Vlad Naumescu -- 5 'Believe But Don't Be Superstitious!' Discourses of Authority and Authenticity in a Taiwanese Spirit-Medium Shrine / Friedrich Binder -- 6 Suspense in Retrospective Ethnography / Henk Driessen -- 7 In Search of Certainty in Revolutionary India / Alpa Shah -- 8 'Something Went Wrong with this Capitalism': Illusion and Doubt in a Hungarian (Post- )Industrial Community / Eszter Bartha -- 9 Doubt as a Double-Edged Sword: Unanswerable Questions and Practical Solutions among Newly Practising Somali Muslims in London / Giulia Liberator? -- 10 Afterword: In the Aftermath of Doubt / Julie McBrien.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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