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082			_a204.4 BEN
100			_aBender, Courtney
245			_aWhat Matters? _b : Ethnographies of value in a not so secular age _c/ Courtney Bender
260			_aNew York _b: Columbia University Press, _c2015.
300			_avi, 288p. _c24cm.
365			_b1900
505			_a Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Things of Value -- From a Materialist Ethic to the Spirit of Prehistory -- Conquering Religious Contagions and Crowds -- Religious and Secular, “Spiritual” and “Physical” in Ghana -- Volunteer Experience -- Secular Humanitarianism and the Value of Life -- Homeschooling the Enchanted Child -- Mind Matters -- Tribalism, Experience, and Remixology in Global Psytrance Culture -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index
520			_aOver the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholars to rethink secularity and its relationship to society. Since classifying a person, activity, or experience as religious or otherwise is an important act of valuation, one that defines the characteristics of a group and its relation to others, scholars are struggling to recast these concepts in our increasingly ambiguous, pluralistic world.This collection considers religious and secular categories and what they mean to those who seek valuable, ethical lives. As they investigate how individuals and groups determine significance, set goals, and attribute meaning, contributors illustrate the ways in which religious, secular, and spiritual designations serve as markers of value. Reflecting on recent ethnographic and historical research, chapters explore contemporary psychical research and liberal American homeschooling; the work of nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American psychologists and French archaeologists; the role of contemporary humanitarian and volunteer organizations based in Europe and India; and the prevalence of highly mediated and spiritualized publics, from international psy-trance festivals to Ghanaian national political contexts. Contributors particularly focus on the role of ambivalence, attachment, and disaffection in the formation of religious, secular, and spiritual identities, resetting research on secular society and contemporary religious life while illuminating what matters in the lives of ordinary individual
650			_aReligion
650			_aReligious experience, life, practice
650			_aConduct of life.
650			_aEthics.
650			_aMeaning (Philosophy)
650			_aValues.
700			_aBender, Courtney
700			_aTaves, Ann,
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