The Pursuit of Certainty

Name: The Pursuit of Certainty
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415107907
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Religious and Cultural Formulations

Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge

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The Pursuit of Certainty explores the impact of global movement and cultural mixing on the rise of new ethnic, cultural, and religious identities. Through diverse case studies, it examines how anthropology’s tradition of tolerance informs the search for truth amid emerging certainties. The book critically discusses new religious movements and contemporary societal and cultural orthodoxies, offering a nuanced perspective on diversity in a rapidly changing world.
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This book is suitable for readers interested in anthropology, cultural studies, and contemporary religious and societal issues.

An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.

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Although the world population faces movement, mixing and displacement on a larger scale than ever before, the result has not been a collapse of boundaries but an increase in the rise of new forms of ethnic, cultural and religious identity.

Those based in the highly developed countries can extend global influence through wealth and sophisticated technology.

The Pursuit of Certainty presents case studies which explore the effect anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.

Several chapters focus on the rise of new certainties while others examine notions of diversity, providing a critical perspective on the new religious movements and current popular orthodoxies relating to society and culture.

Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge

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ISBN: 9780415107907

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 August 1995

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

Edited by Wendy James

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 566g

Pages: 328

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge

About the Author

Wendy James is University Lecturer in Social Anthropology and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.

The Pursuit of Certainty