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Social Implications of the Relationships Between Mediums,1 Entourage, and Clients in Singapore Today
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This article is published in Asian Journal of Social Science.The article was published on 1979-01-01. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Asian studies.read more
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The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree
TL;DR: The authors suggests a conceptual framework for such a constructionist approach and suggests that disagreements between ethnographers often arise because of the particular circumstances of field-work or attributes of the ethnographers.
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Disrupting “Asian Religious Studies”: Knowledge (Re)production and the Co-construction of Religion in Singapore
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine academic research on and teaching of religion in Singapore and demonstrate how scholarly interventions at once re-present and conceal religion as experienced and lived, and emphasize the need to recognize the geography, sociology, and politics of knowledge (re)production, and to decenter the notion that there is an emerging Asian religious studies.
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The Ritual Process : Structure and Anti-Structure
TL;DR: Turner's seminal work, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure as discussed by the authors, examines the Ndembu in Zambia and develops the concept of "Communitas", which is an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.
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International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
TL;DR: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects as discussed by the authors, which stands at a unique moment in the relationship between belief and culture.
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Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore
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