: ethnographies of value in a not so secular age Courtney Bender ; Ann Taves creator Ann Taves text Conduct of life. New York : Columbia University Press , ©2012 monographic eng

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vi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. This collection of essays examines religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions in society. Introduction: Things of value / Ann Taves, Courtney Bender -- From a materialist ethic to the spirit of prehistory / Silvia Tomášková -- Conquering religious contagions and crowds : nineteenth-century psychologists and the unfinished subjugation of superstition and irrationality / Christopher White -- Religious and secular, "spiritual" and "physical" in Ghana / Birgit Meyer -- Volunteer experience / Erica Bornstein -- Secular humanitarianism and the value of life / Peter Redfield -- Homeschooling the enchanted child : ambivalent attachments in the domestic southwest / Rebecca Allahyari -- Mind matters : Esalen's Sursem group and the ethnography of consciousness / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Tribalism, experience, and remixology in global psytrance culture / Grahan St John. /Courtney Bender Philosophy 204.4 BEN 9780231156851 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002 190923 20191122141754.0