TY - BOOK AU - Courtney Bender AU - Ann Taves TI - What matters? : : ethnographies of value in a not so secular age SN - 9780231156851 U1 - 204.4 BEN PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - : Columbia University Press KW - Philosophy KW - Conduct of life N1 - 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 N2 - This collection of essays examines religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions in society ER -