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082 _a204.4 BEN
100 _aCourtney Bender
_a; Ann Taves
245 _aWhat matters?
_b: ethnographies of value in a not so secular age
_c/Courtney Bender
260 _aNew York
_b: Columbia University Press
_c, ©2012.
300 _avi, 288 pages
_b : illustrations
_c ; 24 cm.
365 _b1900
505 _a 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.
520 _aThis collection of essays examines religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions in society.
650 _aPhilosophy
655 _aConduct of life.
700 _aAnn Taves
942 _cBOOK