Ruth Frankenberg

Living Spirit, Living Practice

Poetics, Politics, Epistemology

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnographic study of the growing number of self-invented East-West hybrid religious practices in the U.S.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332572
• ISBN-10: 0822332574
• Artikelnr.: 22307889

Autorenporträt

Ruth Frankenberg is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness and editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
> Introduction: On Rivers, Mountains, and Secrets 1
1. Talking to God—and God Talking Back 33
2. Mind Embodied: Spiritual Practice and Consciousness 77
3. Place and the Making of Religious Practice 133
4. The Spirit of the Work: Challenging Oppression, Nurturing Diversity 174
5. Conscious Sex, Sacred Celibacy: Sexuality and the Spiritual Path 212
Epilogue 265
Appendix 1. Biographical Summaries 271
Appendix 2. Demographic Profile 277
Notes 281
Bibliography 291
Index 299