The Anthropology of Protestantism: Faith and Crisis Among Scottish Fishermen

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PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781349463541

RRP: £22.00

PAGES: 244

PUBLICATION DATE:
January 20, 2016

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The Anthropology of Protestantism: Faith and Crisis Among Scottish Fishermen

J. Webster

Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These debates also call into question assumptions about the decline of religion in modern industrial societies.

J. Webster

Joseph Webster is Isaac Newton- Graham Robertson Research Fellow in Social Anthropology and Sociology at Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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